NIST Issues Windows XP Security Guide

routerwhore writes "NIST Special Publication 800-68 (zip file) has been created to assist IT professionals, in particularly Windows XP system administrators and information security personnel, in effectively securing Windows XP systems. It discusses Windows XP and various application security settings in technical detail."

Comments

Re:Looks very usefull at first glance

[howlatthemoon]

I'm glad someone is doing it given the speed at which MS provides this kind of assistance. It has to be part of their business plan. "If we wait long enough someone else will do it for us, and we can save some money" How do you think they get the cash they use to pay consulting groups to tell us how secure their OS is?

Ho-hum... let the MS-bashing begin.

[TheTXLibra]

Things You'll always see in a slashdot thread regarding Microsoft."

1. "Microsoft ripped off/ruined XXXXXXX!"
2. "Windows sUx0rZ! Use Linux instead."
3. "Blah, blah, Bill Gates ate my balls, blah."
4. "They must have used IE! LOL!"
5. "Blahblah, William Henry Gates, blah, hexidecimal, blah 666, blah."

Amusing, all of them, but couldn't we just bundle all the posts that do nothing but bash MS with some over-used catchphrase into a scripted category? Automatically, every time a story regarding Microsoft or Bill Gates comes out, a script will automatically generate the above comments in a seperate thread, and if someone can think of an original bash to say, they can just add it to the list. With time and effort, the script will grow to a good....10 or 20 insults.

Bitch, Whine, Moan....

[reallocate]

Pilgrim bitches too much.

It's his fault that he can't keep track of his product key. Windows isn't the only product -- software or otherwise -- that wants a serial number before it works.

It's his fault that he wasn't clueful enough to add SP1 and the usual horde of updates before he started mucking about. (Not that anyone installing a 4-year old version of any Linux distribution wouldn't also need to install a horde of security updates.)

And, it's his fault for trying to use old drivers to get his net connection working.