How to lock your Windows XP box.........

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Hi malware fighters,

Out of the box is dangerous, we all know it, upnp, admin rights, etc, etc. Do something about it in the right way:

Disabling Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
Disabling Remote Assistance/Desktop/Registry
Disabling the Guest account
Renaming the Administrator account
Setting up a bogus Administrator account
Disabling NetBIOS
Disabling Active Directory
Enabling NTFS and EFS file systems
Encrypting the temp directory
Disabling unnecessary services
Enabling auditing

Read this article and act accordingly:
http://www.elecboy.com/index.php/2007/01/25/how-to-lock-down-your-windows-xp-box/

polonus

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Damien,
You don’t need to read an article to secure your system.
Just follow the advice offered freely in this forum. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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Hi bob3160,

I know that we have all this information on board here, just wanted to pass the info arranged in this particular fashion of this article, but it is a valid remark, and it is yours,

pol