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LaminatorX
on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:30AM
from the unplugging-the-network-cable dept.
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: 2, Informative) by tibman on Wednesday March 05 2014, @03:44PM
Sandboxie is a good option as well. You can run any application that does outside communication or consumes media inside a sandboxie container.
When an application writes to disk it is virtual. To the application (and any other application in the container) the data is there. You can explore this data or just wipe it. Makes it easy to export configs, downloads, or anything that your applications generate back to the real file-system.
The only gotcha is applications that require admin access to run. Pretty sure they can punch through the container or do things that sandboxie can't control.
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