Is this overkill? Are there any other recommendations? Running F-Secure might be a good way, scan the drive/disk, if F-Secure says its clean, go ahead and import the data. What is the best way to import this whilst minimizing my exposure? I am thinking a sacrifical laptop I have, as I said, a lot of old backups and data that have been collected from many sources - some more repuatable that others.
Practical are faesible, will F-Secure sort the good from the bad here? My email is spread around the web for various reasons, and I tend to get a lot of spam, some of it easy to detect, some not so - the general recomendation to not open email from people you don't know is not always Again, what are the general recomendations for safe guarding email? Is the F-Secure product a good solution? Can Mail Clients run in Sandboxes - rememebering that all apps in the Mac App Store run in Sandboxes. Should HTML email be disabled entirely? Or downloading attachments and scripts automatically, I would have to manually execute these tasks to cause an issue correct? F-Secure appears to have protection built in for this - has anyone tried it and have feedback?įollowing on from the above question - I have read several recomendations that the preview pane in your mail reader be disabled, is this really necessary? What is the risk here? If the mail reader is not opening attachments How real is the threat of malcious web pages when proper user security is used (strong passwords, seperation of accounts) Can we run browsers in Sandboxes? Would this make a difference? What are the best practices for web surfing? However, when Plugins come into the mix, Java/Flash/etc, that is a whole other story, after all the Defender trojan was spread via hacked Wordpress sites, if I remember correctly. Site redirects, cross site scripting and theft of personal data might be possibleīut malware, trojans and viruses are unlikely. It seems rather common knowledge that webpages can be malicious, though, to the best of my knowledge, pure HTML, javascript is unable to achieve much. Web Browsing, Sandboxes and the general threat of webpages N.B I plan on using strong passwords for SysAdmin and users, and not use the SysAdmin account for anything other than SysAdmin tasksġ. Recently I have been considering security issues and I have been thinking a lot about how best to deal with these issues and I *think* F-Secure might be my best solution, but want to canvas the general population for more info. Currently the Mac has no data (not even an OS) so I have a blank canvas to work with. I also have 2x1.5TB USB3 drives for external backups with TimeMachine, which I will cycle weekly,Īnd a remote Mac Mini hosted in a data center, which I will use for remote Time Machine backups. I have configured the server with an SSD primary disk for OS and applications, and a 1TB magnetic secondary drive for data.
#FREE AVAST SECURITY FROM CNET FOR MAC OX 10 10.6 PC#
After many years of PC ownership and hundreds of backup disks lying around the place, I have decided that this time I will do it right. I'm running a late 2012 Mac Mini Server, and am in the process of setting it up. I'm just throwing that disclaimer in, as I'm sure there are a few people (including my friends) who reckon my paranoia over data security has gone over the top. Reinstalling and cleaning up my PC (Mac) after some **bleep** let some malware lose. Worry about my data being corrupted, lost, infecting family and friends PCs and generally causing havoc. That being said, I guess I have a right to my privacy and paranoia, my tin-foil hats aren't hurting anyone! Also, I just don't want to have to To the best of my knowledge, I am not doing anything that anyone, ever would bother wasting their time on hacking my system or reading my emails. Somewhere in the last 12 months I have become increasingly paranoid! Whether the threat is real or imagined, I'm not too sure!
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