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NateHoy's Essential Security Guide for Windows 2000/XP – A good site of (relatively) simple things to do to safeguard your computer Microsoft Windows Update – The site for updates to Windows http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp Microsoft Protect your PC site – Microsoft recommendations for protecting your PC http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/ Microsoft Office Update – Don’t forget to check for Office Updates as well as Windows Updates http://office.microsoft.com/OfficeUpdate/default.aspx
Gibson Research –
Steve offers a number of free tools for checking and improving security as well
as solving certain annoyances about Windows. Be sure to try Shields Up to see
if you need a firewall and look at some of his other free utilities. http://www.grc.com
Black Vipers
Services site – Windows has many ‘services’ running to enable the operating
system to do many things. However many of these services may be unnecessary for
the average user to have running and they may provide avenues for attackers to
get at your PC. This site is a very thorough discussion of the various services
and gives suggestions of which ones to disable.
Protect your e-mail
address on your website using a free coded version from
Enkoder. Secunia Software Inspector will check all versions of
the software on your computer for security issues. Antivirus
Stinger from McAfee - a free online tool for removing common viruses http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger Symantec online security - check check for viruses and online security http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?productid=symhome&langid=ie&venid=sym Free Antivirus software - AVG Antivirus Free Edition. Firewall
Zone Alarm – free version of zone alarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp?lid=home_zainfo Spyware
Connection
Speed
CNET Bandwidth meter http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/ Utilities
Power Desk – replacement for Windows Explorer that offers added features Get the free trial version here. Adobe acrobat reader – http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Be sure to look at the check boxes for additional
downloads that you may not want. Open Office – a free replacement for Word, Excel and Power
Point Startup Control Panel for Win2K and Win ME – Microsoft left
out the msconfig program in these two versions so this is a replacement. http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7976,00.asp
Bios Agent – A quick way to get info about your current BIOS
http://www.esupport.com/biosagent/index.cfm
Google Toolbar – Adds a Google search toolbar to IE or
Firefox as well as a pop up blocke, a form quick fill
and a search term highlighter. http://toolbar.google.com/
Driveragent.com -Check to see if your drivers are current. Driverguide.com - Drivers for older unsupported hardware http://www.driverguide.com/ . Registration required. Another source of drivers is http://www.downloadpcdrivers.com What’s that running process? For a list of the most
common good and bad processes try Sysinfo.com or Answers that work
or LI
Utilities or Process Library. Lost Password recovery http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm
$195.00 Troubleshooting
List of default passwords for devices - http://www.phenoelit.de/dpl/dpl.html
Event Code Definitions – If you look at the log in the event
viewer and find one with a red X you can look up the associated code here http://www.eventid.net/ Brians Buzz Search – Search for
answers to computer problems. http://www.briansbuzz.com/search/
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