Infested Beard Options

[michael]

On the three PCs that I've owned over the last four years, I have developed an almost paranoid obsession with Internet security. My network sits behind a firewalled router and all my systems run Norton 2K4 AV and Firewall with the Liveupdate virus definitions checking for new threats every four hours. My last infection was back in 2000 from an email sent from Beard. This morning I got another one from...Beard!

FFS Stocks sort it out!

[james]

Ok as long as we are blaming Beard and not actually blaming Beard

I thought of a couple more security things everyone should be aware of while I was at it:

If you have a wireless network make sure WEP encryption is on and at it's highest security (128bit if possible). Also make sure that the SSID is not set to broadcast.

When downloading shite on Winblows pay attention to the security certificates - if they are expired or invalid DO NOT go with it anyway - it's not uncommon now for people to have registered very similar domain names to legit ones, direct you to them to download something via a cleaver spam email and then use the download to install some dodgy shit.