Windows 7 Not Secure Enough?

Compared with old operating systems, we can well say Windows 7 security is much higher. It, however, doesn't mean you have nothing to worry about, for quite a few security functions of Windows 7 are disabled or not properly set by default. We should enable these functions and configure properly to make them do as they can. In that way, the Windows 7 security can attain a yet higher level. Tip 1 for safer Windows 7: BitLocker protects your privacy on disks As removable media become more and more popular, it has been a most concerned issue of protecting data on them. To meet security demand mobile storage device encryption is added to Windows ! 7----new BitLocker, actually. The old BitLocker only functions on systemic disk, and it's hard to go through the settings process. Windows 7, on the other hand, has overcome the shortcoming. We can easily set BitLocker on Windows 7 to encrypt USB and flash memory devices. Even if we lost our mobile storage devices some day, we don't need to worry about privacy data disclosure. To turn on BitLocker on Windows 7, we can click Start, click Control Panel, click System and Security, and then click BitLocker Drive Encryption to enter drive list. Select drives you want to protect and click Turn On BitLocker and set decryption key. From then on the drive is encrypted and decryption key is needed to access the drive. If without the key, then no one can peek the data and privacy within. Tip 2 for safer Windows 7: antivirus software guarantees Windows 7 security Microsoft provides free antivirus software MSE, b! ut it's not come with Windows 7 when the system is installed! . You ha ve to download it from Microsoft's website. Though MSE as comprehensive antivirus software has just come to the forefront not for long and it's challenged by many other sophisticated products, one fact lies here that no one else can know more about Windows 7 and Windows 7 security as well. This one plus its free policy make it more competitive. Equipping with antivirus is a most important step in computer security protection. As the computer technology develops rapidly, various threats come along as well. Stubborn trojan, spyware and other malware make traditional antivirus software no longer enough. And then relevant solutions come into being. Like we have free and charged antivirus to choose, there are also charged special security utilities as well as free spyware removal, trojan removal and a series malware removal software. Choose the right one, the free can do as well as the charged, too, if not better than. Tip 3 for safer Windows 7: software restriction policies help avoid vulnerabilities being abused I believe many users download patches to fix vulnerabilities regularly via Automatic Updates to avoid system vulnerabilities being used by hackers, and this is good habit. However, only Windows vulnerabilities can be fixed in this way but other software's is left unfixed. To prevent software vulnerabilities from being abused we can make clever configuration on Windows 7 software restriction policies to restrict software containing bugs to network connection so that they won't be used by hackers via network. Follow the steps to make restrictions. Click Start, Run, and type gpedit.msc to enter Group Policy window. Then unfold Computer Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Software Restriction Policies. Right click Software Restriction Policies and click Create New Policies. Next double click Enforcement in the right windows and check All users except loc! al administrators under Apply software restriction policies to! the fol lowing users, apply and confirm. After that right click Additional Rules at the same window as Enforcement, and choose New Path Rule. Browse and add applications that contain bugs, and shift Security to Disallowed. Finally, software vulnerabilities can't be used to attack our Windows 7 by hackers any more. Tip 4 for safer Windows 7: UAC raises Windows 7 security level UAC is not newborn thing on Windows 7, but compared with what are on Vista and Windows 2008, it has been improved much on the new system. It's far smarter in distinguishing illegal and legal operations now, and we can set its security level freely according to our actual need, ensuring working efficiency and security both to the largest extent. We recommend UAC is set at Always notify to ensure a steady system. And as is said above UAC on Windows 7 is smarter; even if it's at Always notify it alerts much less than Vista. Tip 5 for saf! er Windows 7: SmartScreen Filter defends malicious web attack Nowadays quite a few websites have malicious controls and virus code hidden behind. Once you visit these sites and you will be attacked by the controls and codes, leading to virus infection, or local drives formatted. To prevent this, the new IE browser on Windows 7 has SmartScreen Filter added. When it is enabled, the local IE browser will be connected to Microsoft's website data base in order to verify whether the target site you want to visit is safe or not, and thus the possibility of being attacked is reduced to the least. To enable SmartScreen Filter, you can click tools on IE, choose SmartScreen Filter from the pull-down menu and open it in the sub menu. Later when you visit websites that contain malicious factors or disguise as normal sites SmartScreen is going to give alerts to us. 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