Windows: Let's talk better security for a moment...

Please click inside the above image to enlarge it, and copy its URL. This program from Microsoft should be on your Windows computer, and this newest version of it has a very user-friendly GUI with which you can configure it to protect your various third-party programs that aren't already featured in its basic list. It comes with its own User Guide, which you may or may not need to consult.

Please go to this page to obtain your download, and simply follow the directions. It's easy.

The object of this exercise is to make it as difficult as possible for the 'bad guys' to hack into your system and plant their nasties in it, so you really should have a serious look at this one.
It's a very useful supplement to whatever else your security protection includes, and it can be configured to cover all your installed security programs as well as everything else. So if I were you, I'd get the download and install it. It's a free program, so you can afford it.

And Thank You, Mighty Microsoft, for making this available!

(When can I start testing Windows 9 Beta?) 

Friday, October 4, 2013 Update on the above:-


I may have given you folks a bum steer by suggesting we should all get this EMET 4.0..... When I started up my computer this evening following a brief shutdown for my afternoon nap, and with nothing wrong with it when it was shut down, it didn't start up in its usual normal manner. 


Instead, a terse message came on screen saying "Scanning and Repairing Drive (D) - this may take over an hour" I couldn't cancel it because the very brief instruction telling how came on screen and left again before I could read it.
Attempting to force-reboot it didn't change this goddamned repair scan thing, and I had to wait while it dragged its ass discovering that the "D" drive isn't something it could repair. That's of course my DVD Drive, and it either works or you throw it out and buy a new one - there's nothing to scan and repair, especially when the drive is empty and has no disk in it. So this was obviously some kind of fuck-up, and I immediately suspected the EMET 4.0 that had been most recently installed. I went into Control Panel - Programs and Features
and smartly deleted that, and then did another reboot. All went well, and it did restart normally without problems. So it looks like "suspicions confirmed" on that fancy EMET program. It obviously isn't for everyone.


I'm running a dual-boot setup here with Windows 7 SP1 on one half of the drive and Windows 8 Pro on the other, and I certainly don't want anything messing that up for me. So it's "Goodbye, EMET".