Appalbarry writes:
"Microsoft is about to abandon Windows XP to the wolves. Fair enough it's ancient. However, there are still going to be a lot of XP boxes out there, and a fair number of them are unlikely to ever get upgraded until the hardware dies.
My question is: what's available to help make this old OS stay reasonably secure and safe for the people who can't or won't abandon it?
Over the years I've been through Central Point Antivirus, Norton, McAfee, AVG, stuff like Zone Alarm, and of course the various Microsoft anti-malware offerings. But since moving over to Linux I really haven't kept up on the wild and wonderful world of Windows security tools.
Suggestions?"
(Score: 1) by WizardFusion on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:20AM
This. It's all about common sense (which isn't that common anymore)
It's the same for any device you connect to the Big Bad World (tm), make sure the attack vectors are as small as possible.
This principal was known about in Roman times.! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowslit/ [wikipedia.org]