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You forgot the top two other pieces of advice - Make sure you have a decent adaptive firewall, and run anything even slightly worrisome in a virtual machine, ne
by ghshephard 13y ago
You forgot the top two other pieces of advice - Make sure you have a decent adaptive firewall, and run anything even slightly worrisome in a virtual machine, never on your main operating system.
- nivla 13y agoYou are right, those too. I would also recommend Sandboxie[1], not sure on its effectiveness but the convenience to just right click and run apps in its own sandbox is huge. Does anyone know an open source alternative to it? [1]http://www.sandboxie.com/ http://www.sandboxie.com/
- Inversechi 12y agoI saw this a few years ago but never got round to trying it. Does anyone know how effective this actually is?
- MichaelGG 12y agoAlso on Windows, consider looking at Software Restriction Policies. For my host partition, I have things configured to deny execute for anything not in Windows (and excluding some temp/cache dirs). So if I step away for a minute and someone tries to download and run an exe, Windows should prevent it. Would also prevent me from drunkenly saving cute.jpg.exe to my desktop and running it.