Re: Best practices for preventing malware in a small business environment?

[Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2011-06-14 larrywidmyer () yahoo com wrote:
> I'm concerned with my company's employees contracting rootkits via
> normal websurfing and wanted to find out if there's a good way to
> prevent this from happening. Antivirus software on the PC's help a
> little, but they still don't catch everything.  Is there something
> else that can be implemented on my network to help prevent malware
> being installed through websurfing?

Don't give your employees admin (or poweruser) privileges.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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