Defending the C disk with SteadyState from Microsoft
There is huge amount of software designed to defend the Windows C disk from the bad guys--antivirus, antispyware, firewalls, yada yada yada. Huge amounts of time, effort, and money is spent defending the C disk. But, there are other approaches.
On his Security Now podcast (Episode 129, January 31, 2008), Steve Gibson discussed a free program from Microsoft called SteadyState that defends the C disk in a different way.
The problem that Gibson was looking to solve was that of a small-business owner, someone who needed to provide computers to employees, but didn't want them installing applications for their … Read more