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Keeping XP Secure

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the unplugging-the-network-cable dept.

Appalbarry writes:

"Microsoft is about to abandon Windows XP to the wolves. Fair enough it's ancient. However, there are still going to be a lot of XP boxes out there, and a fair number of them are unlikely to ever get upgraded until the hardware dies.

My question is: what's available to help make this old OS stay reasonably secure and safe for the people who can't or won't abandon it?

Over the years I've been through Central Point Antivirus, Norton, McAfee, AVG, stuff like Zone Alarm, and of course the various Microsoft anti-malware offerings. But since moving over to Linux I really haven't kept up on the wild and wonderful world of Windows security tools.

Suggestions?"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by damnbunni on Wednesday March 05 2014, @10:38AM

    by damnbunni (704) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @10:38AM (#11253) Journal

    I have unsigned drivers installed in Win7/64 bit. There's a bit of command line hackery involved, but nothing too terrible.

    Open a command line as admin, and:

              bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

              bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON

    If you don't want to be bothered with the CLI, there's also a program called EasyBCD that has a tickbox in its 'Advanced' section to disable the driver signature check.

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  • (Score: 2) by gallondr00nk on Wednesday March 05 2014, @11:02AM

    by gallondr00nk (392) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @11:02AM (#11260)

    Indeed, I've used the method on other machines. The trouble is I believe it needs a reboot, which is out of the question on the installation DVD.

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday March 05 2014, @06:59PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @06:59PM (#11465)

    I remember when windows admins used to make fun of how unintuitive and complicated linux admin work was, especially the command line access. The times certainly change.