Fortunately, the situation isn??™t
hopeless. You can protect yourself from all but the most determined individual and with a little
practice; you can even track the determined individual??™s forays into your system.
Server Core provides many interesting new features to help you secure your system. None
of the users, including the administrator, run at the administrator level, which makes it much
tougher for someone to use your account to do their dirty deeds on your system. The hard drive is
locked down, making it harder to get into areas that no one should tamper with. You have the standard
security that Windows has always provided to protect the system??”all you need to do is
ensure you actually use it. Finally, you have the utilities described in this chapter.
The utilities that Microsoft provides to secure your system are adequate. No, you won??™t find any
bells and whistles with these utilities. These utilities lack automation and you??™ll have to remain
diligent in using them. However, with a good security plan and diligence, it??™s possible to keep your
system safe.
In this chapter, you??™ll learn how to do the following:
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Protect your system from viruses, adware, and other sources of contamination
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Manage and terminate applications as necessary
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Convert event logs into a usable format
Virus and External Intrusion Protection
Before you read anything else in this section, it??™s important to understand that most versions of
Windows don??™t provide a virus checker in the purest sense of the term, but the Malicious [Software]
Removal Tool (MRT) comes very close.
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