Desktop security: A contrarian view:
When installing or re-installing Windows (a fairly regular occurrence) I delete Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN, and MSN Messenger to the extent possible. Besides their well known vulnerabilities, they are none of them leaders in their product classes. At setup time I also ruthlessly prune background services. If there’s something I want to do and it won’t run properly, I’ll turn the service on. However, most of them are entirely useless and I never miss them.
(vía Weblog d’en Xavi Caballé)
[Estoy escuchando: «Die Mensch-Maschine» de Kraftwerk en el disco Die Mensch-Maschine]
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