RE: XP Hardening

"Kurt Dillard" <[email protected]> Tue, 13 May 2008 14:04:45 -0300
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I think Microsoft's guide is pretty good:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=14839. If you are looking for
detailed information on what each setting does you can refer to this too:
Threats and Countermeasures: Security Settings in Windows Server 2003 and
Windows XP: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=15159

Kurt
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
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Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:31 PM
To: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: XP Hardening

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:58 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can anyone direct me to some resources explaining hardening procedures for
windows XP.
>

A small amount of kindness is greatly felt, it pays to be kind. :P

To play games, office, at home? What's the function of this computer?
Anyway, you can try http://www.cisecurity.org and apply the benchmark.
It's the best way, IMHO.

Cheers.
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