Install a personal firewall on all systems using WiFi (The wireless protocol). Many new laptops are being shipped with inbuilt WiFi cards which means your system may be remotely accessible without the protection of firewall.
The servers come pre-bundled with the most commonly deployed security applications - such as intrusion detection software, antivirus applications, anti-spam software, virtual private networks and firewalls - along with management software for...
Such a product would bring together many functions, such as virus protection, intrusion detection, virtual private networking (VPN), firewalls and content filtering. Firewalls - software that keeps out unwanted intruders - are a mainstay of...
Guido Sanchidrián, Symantec's EMEA product manager for antivirus, content filtering and security response, said the company has spent the past month developing fixes for the vulnerabilities and has now made the patches available to its customers.
Lees also gave the first public demonstrations of several new security technologies, most notably a new "client inspection and isolation" tool, planned for the next major update of Windows Server 2003.
These include disabling remote management over RPC capability for DNS servers, blocking specific data ports using a firewall and enabling advanced filtering. Microsoft said in the advisory: "An anonymous attacker could try to exploit the...