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Re: Which Windows OS is Safest
From: "Alvin Packard" <appredator () hotmail com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:07:07 -0500
It's not specifically which is the safest OS, but how you go about securing the OS. With any M$ system, you need to secure the system by disabling unneeded services, AV protection, firewall, and most of all, user training. These will help make any OS secure.
Alvin Packard, CWNA http://www.networksecuritytech.com
* Artturi Lehti? (artturil () yahoo co uk) wrote:> I would like to know what is regarded as the safest Windows OS as I need to > set up a few new computers for system administrators to use and I would like> to use a Windows OS as the system administrators who will be using the> computers have only experience with Windows. I know that the wisest thing to > do wouold be to teach them how to use another OS like OpenBSD but it isn't> possible. > > Thanks. > > Artturi Lehtiö > artturi.lehtio () vidafalt com
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