Fwd: How to Protect against Rootkits?

["Tomas Korcak" <korczis () gmail com>]

Hi there,

> In regards to Anti-virus, stick with the Best-of-Breed options. I tend to
> steer clear of McAfee or Symantec as they tend to be large
> resource-hogging apps. I've been happy with AVG Anti-Virus personally but
> there are others out there of the same quality.
I think than antivirus maybe be one step in defence agains the
rootkits but unfortunately i dont think than AVG is good antivirus.  I
recommend NOD32. For more information about how succesful different
antiviruses are see virus bulletin.

I think the way of protecting agains rootkits is the same as way
defending again "regular" hackers attack. To use rigid setted
firewall, be logged as non-privileg user with as minimal rights as possible (use
runas.exe /user:administrator progname.exe), dont open unknown or
unwanted attachments, use actual version of running programs... etc

Hope this help,
korCZis


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