RE: protect MS Windows 95/98/Me

[Steve McLaughlin <steve () Lan com au>]

Yes, that's a very polite way of saying it.
There is no security features in win9x OS. They are all totally unsecure
operating systems. The security features within are totally flawed in all
ways, there is no way of securing these operating systems.

The solution is to upgrade to windows 2k or XP, using NTFS.

There is no other way.

Don't embarrass yourself wasting the organisations capital on totally
obsolete and unstable operating systems.

Consider the 9x OS Obsolete, upgrade to NT5 or 5.1. Don't bother even
looking further into securing Win9x. It is a total waste of time.

steve mclaughlin | enlite technologyR
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-----Original Message-----
From: French, Mark [mailto:Mark.French () wellington co uk] 
Sent: Thursday, 25 September 2003 2:07 AM
To: 'security-basics () securityfocus com'
Subject: RE: protect MS Windows 95/98/Me

I don't know of any software, but in this situation, my hardware of choice
would be SCISSORS.
Cut the network cable, keyboard cable, and mouse cable.

This is probably the only way that this level of security can be achieved in
these operating systems.

Mark

(Sorry, I couldn't resist)

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Reidenbach [mailto:pominciss () greendot com ph]
Sent: 24 September 2003 06:25
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: protect MS Windows 95/98/Me


Hi everyone!
I'm looking for a software that you can install on
MS Windows 95/98/Me Machines that won't
allow an ordinary user to install any programs or
allow any virus to infect any files.
Would anybody know what they call these programs
and where to get them? Any kind of help will be
appreciated.
-Robert-



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