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Probably the Best Free Security List in the World

Probably the Best Free Security List in the World - Page Index
9. System hardening

9.1. Guides for securing your PC:
Gizmo's Security Wizard
Ako's current choices for protection
Gizmo's Guide to Securing Your PC
Best Free Security Diet Plan
BlueZanetti
Cyber Security Tips
Select Real Security
CKnow Virus Tutorial
Invincible Windows
10 services to turn off in MS Windows XP
Microsoft: How to disable the Autorun functionality in Windows (more: XP  V )
Creating a secure domain policy in Windows 
Security Beacon – Security Check List

9.2. Limited user account (LUA):
Why you should not run your computer as an administrator
Vista, 7  another
XP

9.3. More secure browser:
Google Chrome
SRWare Iron
Comodo Dragon
CoolNovo
Yandex.Browser
Firefox
Waterfox
Opera
SeaMonkey
Epic Browser
Pale Moon 
MultiMi
Comodo IceDragon
Google Chrome Frame
Dooble     
SlimBoat

9.4. More secure PDF reader:
PDF-XChange Viewer
Foxit
Sumatra

9.5. More secure media player:
PotPlayer
VLC media player
KMPlayer
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema
UMPlayer

9.6. More secure image viewer:
FastStone Image Viewer
Irfanview
Picasa

9.7. More secure office suite:
LibreOffice
Kingsoft Office Suite Free
Zoho Docs
Google Docs

9.8. Hardening tools:
Vispa (V)
xpy
Harden-It
SafeXP
XPantispy
Security & Privacy Complete
Seconfig XP
Samurai (XP)
Accounts Tuner
Windows Worms Doors Cleaner (XP)

9.9. Anti-exploit tools:
Crystal Anti-Exploit Protection (beta)
ExploitShield Browser Edition (beta)

9.10. Protection against specific vulnerabilities:
.LNK Shortcut Antivirus
.LNK G Data
.LNK Sophos

9.11. USB-autorun disabling:
Panda USB and AutoRun Vaccine
Flash disinfector
Thumbscrew
USB Immunizer
Protect My Disk
USB Protector
AutoRun Antivirus Pro
See Also

9.12. Script-file protection:
Script Defender
ScripTrap

9.13. SRP (Software Restriction Policy):
instructions 1
instructions 2
PGS - Pretty Good Security more
Safe Admin 2
AppAdmin

9.14. Adding user rights:
Sudo for windows
suDown

9.15. Elevating user rights:
SuRun
PowerBroker Desktops

9.16. Running program with dropped rights:
PsExec
StripMyRights
1-defender
RunInsideLimitedJob  

9.17. Running program with specific integrity level:
Runasil
Chml and Regil

9.18. Improved Group Policy Editor:
Doug's Windows XP Security Console
Polsedit  

9.19. File & folder properties:
FaJo XP FSE
Attribute Changer
NTFS Permissions Tools
PathLock

9.20. Check fo privilege escalation:
AccessEnum 
AccessChk 
Dark Elevator 

9.21. Protect/restrict programs and apps:
AskAdmin (formerly AppAdmin)
Application Blocker

9.22. Hardware-based security:
Determine Processor Security Feature

9.23. Other:
Protect Windows with pfSense and VirtualBox

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by ako (the) (not verified) on 27. June 2012 - 22:10  (95446)

Thanks for both, I'll check this :-)

by vodomar on 22. June 2012 - 8:38  (95219)
by vodomar on 19. June 2012 - 0:14  (95079)
by vodomar on 18. June 2012 - 10:39  (95049)

Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA

by MidnightCowboy on 18. June 2012 - 11:57  (95054)

Brilliant - thanks for the link. :) Loved it when he accused Microsoft of lying about their supposed kernel merger in Windows 8 (although he uses slightly more colourful language!) :D

by vodomar... (not verified) on 18. June 2012 - 19:04  (95075)

:D and for Nvidia -body language :)

by MidnightCowboy on 19. June 2012 - 3:26  (95088)

My best overall was this quote towards the end:

"I like offending people because people who get offended should be offended".

I can identify with this. :D

by epos (not verified) on 16. June 2012 - 11:53  (94944)

Some of yours links are malicious, so I don't trust in yours recommendation...sorry.

by vodomar on 16. June 2012 - 12:27  (94946)

e.g.?

by epos (not verified) on 16. June 2012 - 12:48  (94949)

•http://www.ninjapendisk.com/•
-scaned by TrafficLight:
chrome://trafficlight/content/alerts/malware/page_blocked.html

by ako on 16. June 2012 - 16:14  (94967)

Sorry Vodomar Anupam and epos. I made an editing mistake. Is there any possibility to undo it?
P.S. The discussion below proved, that it was a false positive.

by Anupam on 16. June 2012 - 16:23  (94969)

What kind of editing mistake? You mean deleting the comments? Can't be done, if you mean that :D. No probs from me though.

Yes, it is a false positive definitely. I checked the site on urlvoid.com, and only BitDefender marks it as detected. However, when you click on more details, the BitDefender Trafficlight says that it can't find anything suspicious with the site. So, its definitely a case of a false positive.

Feel free to delete the whole series of comments. If someone can't accept the facts, we can do nothing.

by Ako (the) (not verified) on 16. June 2012 - 22:54  (94986)

Yes, I deleted it accidentally.

by Anupam on 17. June 2012 - 0:56  (94988)

Yup, can't be undone. Meant to be deleted maybe? :D

by Ako (the) (not verified) on 17. June 2012 - 10:07  (95001)

;D

by A_Nonny_Mush (not verified) on 16. June 2012 - 0:07  (94928)

FireGloves, A Firefox plugin to impede fingerprinting-based tracking while maintaining browsing experience.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegloves/

by vodomar on 16. June 2012 - 12:28  (94947)

thx :)

by vodomar on 14. June 2012 - 18:14  (94870)
by vodomar on 13. June 2012 - 10:26  (94792)
by vodomar on 13. June 2012 - 1:41  (94766)
by vodomar on 11. June 2012 - 21:29  (94704)

Flame -update:

Matthew Green:Flame, certificates, collisions. Oh my.
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/06/flame-certificates-colli...

Marc Stevens:CWI cryptanalyst discovers new cryptographic attack variant in Flame spy malware
http://www.cwi.nl/news/2012/cwi-cryptanalist-discovers-new-cryptographic...

Alex Sotirov:Analyzing the MD5 collision in Flame
http://blog.trailofbits.com/2012/06/11/analyzing-the-md5-collision-in-fl...

by George.J on 11. June 2012 - 13:31  (94681)

Congrats on the 5 million reads for the article :-) Good job with the article for updating it and keeping it comprehensive.

by ako (the) (not verified) on 11. June 2012 - 14:44  (94685)

Thanks! And thanks for J_L and Vodomar for great work!

by vodomar on 9. June 2012 - 14:33  (94607)

ESET: Guarding against password reset attacks with pen and paper

http://blog.eset.com/2012/06/07/guarding-against-password-reset-attacks-...

by A_Nonny_Mush (not verified) on 9. June 2012 - 9:36  (94595)

Smart Referer

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-referer/

by vodomar on 9. June 2012 - 13:57  (94605)

thx :)

by vodomar on 8. June 2012 - 20:37  (94581)

Adobe Releases Sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/adobe-releases-sandboxed-flash-player-...

by vodomar on 6. June 2012 - 9:03  (94483)

Google:Security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 12:04 PM

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.sk/2012/06/security-warnings-for-su...

by AnonymousD26 (not verified) on 5. June 2012 - 14:45  (94437)

Hi all just had a interesting thing happen when I clicked on a link. I started out in the "Probably the Best Free Security List in the World" and clicked on http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/probably-best-free-security-list-world.htm?page=0,12
The Ip-Blocking/Hardening category I went to try out Sendori and the page loaded just fine until I tried to download it. I got a blocked alert for avira web protection said sendori is malware and then a few seconds later avira blocked the change of my host file. Thats not good and glad I decided to switch to avira. Just wanted to let everyone know I don't believe it to be a false positive since right after it tried to change my host file. I have Online armor free and avira free and I'm happy to say they work well. I use wireless data stick to access the internet so I was looking for a alternative dns that had a updater and software that would change my dns for me since its sorta like dial up broadband with a data stick any suggestions?? I would use opendns but it will not add my ip for some reason its restricted and I'm not able to do anything... I have the option to change from a dial up wireless modem to using it as a WAN just have to make changes to the tcp connection speed and just didn't want to go through all that. Is mailshield any good? Sendori was blocked for malware I might just stick with my ISP/Cell company.

by ako (the) (not verified) on 5. June 2012 - 17:33  (94448)

Yes. The program is definitely legitimate. There has been heuristic "detection", probably due to packing or behavior.