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Windows 95/98/ME/NT Security

Posted May 26, 2004

These operating systems have reached the end of their product support life cycles. This means these operating systems may currently have critical security vulnerabilities that will never be fixed. It is recommended that you consider upgrading to a newer operating system. We provide some links here that may help improve security for these operating systems.

Basic 95/98/ME
http://www.microsoft.com/security/home/

Basic NT
http://www.microsoft.com/security/home/

Intermediate 95/98/ME
http://www.lbl.gov/ICSD/Security/systems/win-checklist.html
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/win-95-info.html

Intermediate NT
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/chklist/nt4wscl.asp
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/win_configuration_guidelines.html
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/techresources/security/Secure_NTInstall.asp

Advanced 95/98/ME
Since these are not "advanced" operating systems, there are no advanced guidelines for them.

Advanced NT
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/documents/CIAC-2317_Windows_NT_Managers_Guide.pdf
http://www.trustedsystems.com/downloads.htm

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