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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."
You're asking on Slashdot?????
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
-Insert clever Windows bashing phrase here-
99% of Windows 3.11 machines have never been connected to the Internet, so I don't think we'd know if there were any security holes.
The bold print was an accident of not closing my tags, not an attempt to get my post more attention or to be a troll.
-The Libra
"Please be patient--The future will begin momentarily."
Mom's ordering a new computer today. And I expect she won't have much trouble with it.
She's actually been very happy with her old computer, but the video went out a couple days ago, and she decided it was time to get a new computer rather than having the old one repaired, something I urged her to do because most of today's software won't run on the machine I gave her and dad for Christmas in 1995.
She was still running netscape 4.5. I avoided using CSS for the longest time for the sole reason that it wouldn't render well on Mom & Dad's machine.
(Dad passed away, I'm very sorry to say, about a year ago.)
Mom's old machine? A Mac 6130. I forget if it was a powermac or performa. It had a 66 Mhz PowerPC 601. Remember - Mom was perfectly happy with her old Mac until it lost video. It might even be easy to repair, but we're a continent apart so I can't look at it myself.
Her new machine? A 17 inch iMac, with 256 MB of RAM, 80 GB hard drive, 1.2 GHz PowerPC CPU. I think the iMacs all use G4s now.
No worms or viruses for her.
I recommended purchasing AppleCare. It will take her some time to get used to Mac OS X. I think her iMac could boot into Mac OS 9, but I'm not going to tell her how. I'm going to suggest she take a class to learn about Mac OS X.
All her old software will still run, just under the Classic mode within OS X.
Do you do tech support for your Mom? Get her an iMac, and get ready to stop cursing at Windows.
Aunt Peggy, Mom's twin sister, got an iBook about a year ago, again on my recommendation.
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