No need to buy a firewall program:
http://www.dozleng.com/internetsecurity/?p=133
Hiding the UAC when using standard user accounts:
http://www.dozleng.com/internetsecurity/?p=137
Other interesing security topics:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile/donna
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