Making a PC bulletproof from viruses and Trojans etc..

[stlcardinals]

If you want to administrate remotely, use something like Logmein

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

WINDOWS UPDATES
Automatic
Every day at 5:00 PM

ANTIVIRUS
Avira AntiVir Personal Edition
Avast!
Microsoft Security Essentials
Panda Cloud Antivirus

FIREWALLS
Outpost Security Suite Free
Online Armor Personal Firewall
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall

You can go HERE for a very good guide setting up a firewall

Browsers
Firefox or Chrome

Add Ons
LastPass or KeePass
Web of Trust (WOT)

SpywareBlaster - This excellent product will protect both Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Spybot S&D Immunize - Adds a large list of malicious websites to Internet Explorer's Restricted Sites list just as SpywareBlaster does. This can be found by clicking the Immunize button on the left side of SpybotS&D.

You can add a layer of protection to your home network or computer by using OpenDNS
or Norton DNS
Norton DNS uses Symantecs exhaustive Safe Web database

Sandboxie was already mentioned but you need a analyzer to analyze the files you download before recovering them
Buster Sandbox Analyzer
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=259357

Create a limited users account
Buy a lifelong liscence of malware bytes pro. Its only around $25 thats it.

 

[Raffa]

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml#microsoft

NSA has developed and distributed configuration guidance for operating systems. These guides are currently being used throughout the government and by numerous entities as a security baseline for their systems.

 

[0roo0roo]

pc safeguard seems interesting, it is the replacement for steady state i guess.

how much does it affect boot though, I remember steady state slowed boot times on older pc's I tried it on.

Then again you can always fit an ssd.... anyone try safeguard with ssd?

 

[Ben]

My bad, didn't realize that Steady State doesn't work in Win 7.

 

[MustISO]

If you need to connect remotely to their PC consider TeamViewer. I use to to work on a lot of machine remotely. It works really well.

 

[Chadder007]

You could also lock it down with a local group policy to where the only things that will run are programs under the Windows\system32 dir and anything under Program Files\.