[ale] [OT] Need to lock down a Windows laptop

[Trey Sizemore]

On Apr 11, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Preston Boyington wrote:

> Trey Sizemore wrote:
>> Hi all-
>> 
>> Off-topic for the list, but I know there's tremendous knowledge and experience here when it comes to tightening a Windows machine.
>> 
>> I've got my daughter's laptop dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu.  I've encouraged her to use Ubuntu as much as possible, but realize there are some programs that are not able to run on Linux at this point (tried Wine and others).
>> 
>> So for the times she does log in to Windows, I want to have up-to-date anti-virus installed and am looking for some advice on what to use.  Also, any other software that would be good to install to help keep the nasties off.
>> 
> 
> Microsoft Security Essentials (for anti-virus)
> Mozlla Firefox with the following:
> *Adblock Plus (speeds up things by blocking ads, etc.)
> *NoScript (to block what Adblock doesn't)
> *Firefox Sync (bookmark & password sync)
> *Update Notifier (to keep add-ons updated)
> 
> there are also proxy servers to route through to help protect from some 
> nasties and optionally filter content you don't care about.  OpenDNS has 
> a 'FamilyShield' that does this.
> 
> those would get you started I think.

Thanks for all the suggestions!