Aqui estão alguns passos para melhorar a configuração:
Well, now we need these safety mechanisms to protect XP more than ever. There should be one administrator account per machine, maximum, and this should not be the default “Administrator” account that comes with Windows out of the box – it should an account name only you, the machine owner knows. That way if something malicious gets onto the box it’ll only be able to potentially destroy your profile, not the whole OS.
Your accounts need to look like this – default Administrator account disabled with another user created for admin tasks, with a strong password.
Finally, make sure you disable enumeration of the computer accounts for anonymous users so nobody can/could query the XP machine for what accounts there are without authentication. Given all the changes we’ve made above this would be very difficult anyway but good security is a layered-cake approach, not any silver-bullet.
Windows XP needs to respond to zero traffic sent to it as that’s a huge vector for attack even on a good day. This means no listening services as we’ve done above but we’re going to double-tap this problem by activating the firewall and setting it to block all inbound traffic with no exceptions.
There’s no outbound firewall restrictions in XP so this is about as good as we’re going to get. I’d strongly recommend doubling-up the firewall with something external too and configuring outbound restrictions too.
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