"strip the machine to the bare minimums" is always true to secure your information system: from server to notebook and gadgets. In addition, there is legal requirement in every country. For example, the Green Dam issue in China. Also if you're willfully to join the HoneyNet project, you should check whether there is anny agreement to sign:- not every country favor the HoneyNet project.
In Step two, it should be installing a valid internet security suite and then do the updating on that suite and then updating the Windows. This is also true for Mac, Ubuntu and secured Linux machines.
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"strip the machine to the bare minimums" is always true to secure your information system: from server to notebook and gadgets. In addition, there is legal requirement in every country. For example, the Green Dam issue in China. Also if you're willfully to join the HoneyNet project, you should check whether there is anny agreement to sign:- not every country favor the HoneyNet project.
In Step two, it should be installing a valid internet security suite and then do the updating on that suite and then updating the Windows. This is also true for Mac, Ubuntu and secured Linux machines.
Another FireFox Addon worth installing is BetterPrivacy. This controls LSOs or Flash cookies.
See paper here for discussion of the LSO issue: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1446862
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