[aklug] Re: windoze 7 sucks

On 10/19/2010 11:27 AM, Kevin Miller wrote:
> 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

I actually deleted all the IE shortcuts I could find and put a huge
Firefox shortcut on the desktop.

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Christopher Howard
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