[ale] preventing trojans/bots

[James P. Kinney III]

F-Prot will handle your requirements for AV issues. It is also VERY
affordable and efficient.

Spybot Search & Destroy has automatic stuff built in (under advanced
features) that can be used to automate things. 

Next is a set of "Best Practices":

Any browser except IE. 
Disable ActiveX in IE except for microsoft.com site. 
Remove IE from the menu so it must be searched for to use. 
Make the new browser use the IE "big blue E" icon.
Any mail client but Outlook Express.
Change the Defaults settings to not use IE and Outlook.
Change the defaults settings to not allow IE and outlook to be used.

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 01:14 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I spent some time today with some family members who's home PC was
> having "issues".  I suspected the usual pop-up, "search" tools, etc.,
> but soon found that I was dealing with a trojan'ed box.  It's a
> WinXP-Home (sp1) PC that was purchased 2 years ago and last received
> Norton Virus updates over a year ago when the initial subscription ran
> out.  I took some time to educate the very (non-concerned) novices on
> what was happening.  I even showed them all the _outbound_ spam emails
> that Norton was blocking (but I doubt it was blocking them all).  These
> folks are very nice people, but completely removed from internet
> security concerns.   I've disabled their PC for now, and I am heading
> back to their home next weekend to re-install XP.
> 
> In the meantime I would like to get some input on something:  Is there a
> solid AV tool for XP that doesn't require any user interaction, provides
> a firm "locked down" environment, can automatically update signatures,
> as well as periodic filesystem scanning?  For this PC I'm favoring
> complete automatic action over any user prompting.
> 
> Any help is appreciated, thanks,
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
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Local Net Solutions,LLC        
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