Chapter 17

Securing the System

In this chapter, you will learn to:

• Add Virus and External Intrusion Protection
  • Remove Viruses
  • Detect and Remove Malicious Software
  • Verify System Files
  • Verify Drivers
• Change the Verifier Settings
• Configure Local Security Policies
  • Perform an Analysis
  • Configure Security Policies
  • Export Policies
  • Import Policies
  • Validate a Policy File
• Work with General Applications
  • Use TaskKill and TaskList Filters
  • Terminate Tasks
  • List Applications
  • List Services

Security is an extremely complex topic and this chapter doesn’t seek to tell you everything there is to know about security. However, it does help you understand how to enhance security using command line tools—an often missed opportunity in other books and articles. Command line tools can help you automate security to an extent. You can’t use command line tools to eliminate manual security measures, but some tasks can easily be automated. For example, there really isn’t a good reason to manually scan the drivers on every system on a network. You can easily automate this task and then review a report afterward to determine remedial actions that you normally perform manually. Automation can also help you detect viruses and set consistent po....