How Are You Protecting Your Computers?

b0m8ad1l asks: "I'm wondering what AV, software/hardware firewalls Slashdot readers are using these days. I remember another Ask Slashdot a long time ago, but i'm curious as to how everyone is keeping up with the times. I'm using Kaspersky AV, Sygate Personal Firewall Pro, behind a Netgear RP114 router"

If I told you...

[Tim_F]

The slashdot editors would have all the information they'd need to hack me...

Tin Foil and DuctTape

[Sean Johnson]

I completely covered my PC with it. There`s no airlow, but at least it`s safe. I also sprinkled some holy water on it for good measure. Those Nazis will never get to my PC now.

Re:vmlinuz

[Anonymous Coward]

Buying all of Slashdot's hype that Linux is secure, I built a Linux webserver for my company. 2 weeks later it was rooted. Our newly hired Linux expert had to rebuild it 'securely'. Thankfully for them, they had him on hand to clean up the mess caused by my incompetance.

Bwahahahaha! This information will be used against you in a future troll.

Hmm

[Vokbain]

I bought a Macintosh ^_^

Re:I took the ethernet card out

[base3]

I don't know if you're talking about sensitive as in "biological weapons plans" or sensitive as in "personal finance data," but there's a solution that would allow you to keep the convenience of networking but not expose it to the Internet. (This assumesy ou're running Windows.)

Install IPX/SPX or NetBEUI on both machines. Keep TCP/IP on the non-sensitive machine, but have no TCP/IP stack installed on the sensitive machine, and use IPX/SPX or NetBEUI for networking betwixt them.

For added obscurity points, you could use something like Banyan Vines or LANtastic.