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Lord Borg
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Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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 Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:53 pm |
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I have a Router which has a Firewall, in addition to my Windows Firewall, then the McAffe, it's decent, I don't let it do major program updates, just the definations for protection, and its only a virus scan, none of the spam programs (My dad installed the extras, it nearly trashed his computer...)
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PrankishSmart
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Joined: 29 Apr 2002
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Location: Hobart, Australia.
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| Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:54 am |
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| TrekkieMage wrote: | It can be deleted on the surface. But the hole is still there. Basically the Guest account is an easy way in for hackers, and even if you "delete" the account you're not permanently removing it.
I don't have a source for that, but it came up over the summer when I was working on helping to write a new ciriculum for a 10th grade intro to IT Course. We did a ton of work on security. |
Well I'll give you the benefit of the doubt there. Never the less, if it is simply left disabled as by default, there is the reduced security risk. I'm an IT tech and work for an IT company and don't see why the guest account would ever need to be deleted entirely, but to each their own I guess.
If the guest account is disabled then access cannot be gained through that account whatsoever, without at least needing to gain access via another account.
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TrekkieMage
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Joined: 17 Oct 2004
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Location: Hiding
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| Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:53 pm |
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| Quote: | Disable the Guest Account
The guest account has always been a huge hacker hole, and should be disabled as soon as you install your workstation. Unfortunately, this setting recommendation only applies to Windows XP Professional computers that belong to a domain, or to computers that do not use the Simple File Sharing model. Windows XP Home Edition will not allow you to disable the Guest account. When you disable the Guest account in Windows XP Home Edition via the Control Panel, it only removes the listing of the Guest account from the Fast User Switching Welcome screen, and the Log-On Local right. The network credentials will remain intact and guest users will still be able to connect to shared resources of the affected machine across a network. Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 300489 describes this behavior and states that it is by design. The best workaround for XP Home Users is to assign a strong password to the Guest account. |
Source
And a more official site citing the same problems.
I really don't trust Windows that much 
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PrankishSmart
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Location: Hobart, Australia.
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| Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:19 am |
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Yeah it should be left disabled. Bit tricky for xp home users but I have never once even bothered with home edition it seems somehow sub standard to pro.
I dunno, I rather stick to the devil I know than try the devil I don't
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Birdy
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Joined: 20 Sep 2004
Posts: 13502
Location: Here.
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| Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:50 pm |
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| CJ Cregg wrote: | | dont you have a firewall? |
 Loving your avatar!!
But anyway, was that question directed to me?
I probably have one, but I have no clue where/what it is. My boyfriend is very much into computers, he keeps mine up to date if I need another program. I do the scanning, he does the checkups and stuff
I'll ask him, though. 
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