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

[Geoffrey Myers]

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.

Unless she needs network connectivity under Windows 7, I'd turn off 
networking.

> 
> those would get you started I think. 
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