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10 things you can do to improve network and PC security

I will put it simpil I have spent a long time in fixing computers with infections I find far more infections in computers that are using fox or crom then I find in computers using IE as well as NSS labs had an interesting Intrusion testing on Browsers. Thank you for your time.

Making those secret things less shareable will result in lesser probability of leakage. I think future versions of OS should incorporate security features of non-shareability and access auditing.

so get rid of the users. I wish it was that simple. The users are the ones that cause the problems for themselves and the networks by opening the doors for the malware and hacks to come in. No matter what kind of work we do on the back end, this little crack in the infrastructure will allow the bugs in. To help mitigate this problem, we need to educate the users by making them aware of the implications of poor computer habits and to be on the look out for such things as phishing emails and other blatent attacks.

Unlike Jack and some other people here, many of us have to use Windows and Internet Explorer by default due to the types of applications that the user needs. Oracle's Siebel CRM on Demand for example uses ActiveX plug-ins. This will not work in Firefox or Chrome, so that means the user has to use IE for this application. Since they're using IE for one thing, they'll use it for all their browsing. Linux and Solaris are out because of their need for MS Windows. There are VB Scripts and application plug-ins written strictly for MS Excel. This too precludes using anything else including Open Office which is our default office suite where I work.

I could go on, but the main point is we can do this alone and hope that the little fence around the garden will keep the critters at bay. We need the people that live in the garden to cooperate with us to make it work.