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NIST Issues Windows XP Security Guide

Posted by michael on from the step-1:-reformat dept.

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."

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  1. isolate by xOleanderx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Step one: Isolate from network.

    1. Re:isolate by DarkMantle · · Score: 2, Funny

      Step 2: install 3 popup blockers, 4 spyware utilities, and 5 Antivirus programs, 3 firewalls, and make sure it's behind a good external firewall, get all windows updates on a CD to install them offline.

      Step 3: Keep off network

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  2. 147 pages! by w1r3sp33d · · Score: 4, Funny

    Easy broken down into 9 littler chapters for those MCSE's still out there.

  3. Linux is complex? by TheVidiot · · Score: 4, Funny


    Only 147 pages of reading to secure your Windows XP?!? And they say Linux requires an in-depth knowledge of the OS...

  4. Total Cost of Ownership thru the roof by hey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, changing all those settings really bumps up the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Windows!

  5. Re:Redunancy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Windows XP *IS* Windows 3.11. We perceive the thought form at the root of each and merely hypostatize a different product because we believe in the illusion of time.

  6. Re:50% by jesser · · Score: 2, Funny

    90% of all statistics are made up

    Where did you hear that? I thought it was only 60%.

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  7. I'd read through that.... by nukem1999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    but I'm not supposed to download unknown zip files on my Windows machine.

  8. "in effectively securing Windows XP systems" by Alexis+de+Torquemada · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are already a lot of people who can do this. Well, without the first blank, that is.

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  9. Re:50% by Phibz · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had heard it as "A survey once showed that 50% of all statistics are wrong 90% of the time." :-D

    Phibz

  10. Re:Step two by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 2, Funny

    Step 3.....profit?

  11. "effectively securing Windows XP systems" by WarMonkey · · Score: 3, Funny


    effectively securing Windows XP systems

    That's the great thing about Slashdot -- timely reviews of only the very best science-fiction literature.

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  12. Re:50% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Just ask the Mac users out there that thought they were downloading Word 04.
    Well those people are just idiots...

    Especially the one quoted in the article: "I downloaded the file in the hope that perhaps Microsoft had released some sort of public beta."

    Strike Three! You're OUT!
  13. Re:How to install Windows XP in 5 hours or less by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's two more steps

    148. System continually bluescreens on boot.
    149. Go to step 1