CSO: 10 commandments of Windows security
What you need to install, configure and add to ensure security on Microsoft Windows (especially Windows 7) notebooks and PCs
By Daniel Dern
April 23, 2012
With the introduction of Windows 7, many PC and notebook users may feel more secure than they did using older versions of the Microsoft operating system. Newer OSs have more security features, offer better out-of-the-box security settings and have closed many of the historical security holes. Windows 7, for example, has changed the default User Account Control level so that it's harder for rogue programs to run without first explicitly gaining the user's permission.
However, feeling too secure can be dangerous. With that in mind, here are 10 tips—commandments, if you will—for ensuring your desktop or notebook computer can be used productively as well as safely. Many of the recommended tools are free, and all are affordable—and certainly less expensive than the potential problems of an unsecured computer. Similarly, many will take you only a minute or two to perform—again, far less time than you'd spend recovering from a security problem.
Yes, Windows 8 is on the way; it'll be many years before that version runs on a majority of the installed base. So these tips are focused at the computers you are actually using today—especially Windows 7 computers, though most of the advice also applies to Windows Vista or XP machines.
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