[aklug] Re: windoze 7 sucks

From: Kevin Miller <atftb2@alaska.net>
Date: Tue Oct 19 2010 - 11:27:50 AKDT

Christopher Howard wrote:
>
> /Hopefully/ I won't have to do much more support from this point out.
>
You shouldn't. Just keep the antivirus up to date, and make sure that
auto-updates are enabled for Windows, Adobe, Java and Flash. Acrobat
and Flash in particular are very popular attack vectors of late and I
just saw an article (haven't read it) this morning saying that there's a
wave of java exploits coming in the Near Future.

Other thing that I usually do is reduce the default cache size in IE to
between 25 & 50 MB. Don't know what the default is for W7, but IIRC it
was 2% of the drive in XP. There's no reason someone needs a multi-gig
temp folder but that's what you end up with, given todays hard drives...

...Kevin

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Kevin Miller
Juneau, Alaska
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
In a recent poll, seven out of ten hard drives preferred Linux.
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