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[Skybird]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

Finally, for the truely paranoid, install and run emet
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2458544

Ah, I read about that today, it got recommended by the erman office for IT security as a first tackle against the major vulnerabilities of Explorer that have been revealed and now reported. Microsoft says they cannot close these so fat. However, emet does not offer full protection agains these vulnerabilities, too, says MS and the office.

The risk with emet is that there may arise software incompatabilities, cause it may prevent right those processes the software is depending on. It seems to me that it also needs quite a good ammount of individual tailoring it to the software running under it.

[longam]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Ah, I read about that today, it got recommended by the erman office for IT security as a first tackle against the major vulnerabilities of Explorer that have been revealed and now reported. Microsoft says they cannot close these so fat. However, emet does not offer full protection agains these vulnerabilities, too, says MS and the office.

The risk with emet is that there may arise software incompatabilities, cause it may prevent right those processes the software is depending on. It seems to me that it also needs quite a good ammount of individual tailoring it to the software running under it.

You want safe, get an IPad and run safari, of course your going to be very limited on what you can do, but its safe.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by longam

You want safe, get an IPad and run safari, of course your going to be very limited on what you can do, but its safe.

Safari and MacIntoshs, in the past two years have come increasingly under fire, security-wise. Now that more hackers focus attention on Macs as well it gets reported again and again that their hardware architecture seems to be even more vulnerable than PCs.

A good strategy is to evade the most used software, and use alternatives which are have small market shares only, but are nevertheless supported in a solid way, security wise. These have the smallest chance to attract hackers' attention. I replaced Adobe Reader with Foxit therefore, as an example. Well, Foxit maybe is not really that unknown anymore, but you get the idea.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Safari and MacIntoshs, in the past two years have come increasingly under fire, security-wise. Now that more hackers focus attention on Macs as well it gets reported again and again that their hardware architecture seems to be even more vulnerable than PCs.

Exactly. The whole 'Macs don't get viruses' thing stems from the fact that no one was using Macs. As the user base grows, people are now targeting the Mac OS.