I am not a Geek has posted a Windows XP Security Tweaking guide

With the amount of spyware and malicious scripts floating around anybody that keeps sensitive materials on their system never can be too careful. I'd like to show you some tweaks that you should be using to help keep your data a bit safer than on default machines. The other part that I'll be looking into is pure paranoia! Everybody's out to get you; don't let your computer transmit data ANYWHERE without you telling it to. This guide is intended for all of the people who believe tinfoil hats are fashionable. 99.5% of the people out there won't need or want these tweaks.

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