On 20/08/2005, at 11:34 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote:
You can keep a windows 2000 system secure without patching!:
* Uninstall Outlook Express and IE ( http://www.litepc.com/ ), Install
Firefox and Thunderbird.
* Install Perl, Uninstall WSH.
* Hardware (m0n0wall) and software (stealth mode, deny all (Kerio,
ZoneAlarm, etc.)) firewalls.
* Virus scanner.
* Remove MS JVM, install Sun's.
* MS Office replaced with OpenOffice (Don't install Outlook!!!).
* Subscribe to CERT advisories list.
I had a running average of 30-40 days between reboots, I think the
highest was 90+ days, on my main do everything and anything desktop PC
(it runs FreeBSD, 6-STABLE, now).
Many updates are for core things that require reboots though.. As a
desktop
you can get away with it.. As a server I don't think I would take the
risk..
Also, in my experience windows systems start running quite slow after
about
3 days of heavy load due to memory leaks and the like, which isn't so
noticeable
with just a web server, but on databases it gets horrible.. When I
used windows
I pretty much rebooted every 3-5 days due to loss in performance..
I guess newer versions might have less leaks.. But it is just as
likely they have more!
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