By Will Sturgeon
Published: Wednesday 14 March 2007
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Richard Marshall
Location
Sunny Brixton
Occupation
bloke
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Why not just just, er, turn off your computer when it's not in use....?
It stops all malicious activity and saves energy. What could be simpler?
Right, that's home PCs sorted. Now, as for enterprise PCs, the same applies, turn them off at night if at all possible, install traffic monitoring to log suspicious nocturnal activity and keep on top of Security updates.
Oh, and maybe stop using MS Windows if that makes you more vulnerable...
Since only PCs running Windows can be turned into ...
Anonymous
Umm... Why only Windows?
The only reason I can s...
Bob
Blocking port 25 is naive in the extreme. Mail se...
Tim Trent
The ISP's and Anti-SPAM organisations have had ple...
Charles Smith
Why not just just, er, turn off your computer when...
Richard Marshall
To anonymous from Luton, you are wrong. Both Mac a...
Simon
We need the government to mandate an MOT style tes...
Tongue Incheek
To Charles Smith:
If you were right, Charles, t...
Simpson Lawrence
Ah Mr Lawrence,
The debating tactic of personal a...
Charles Smith
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