The objective of this paper is to alert home users of the growing number of threats to home PCs and to provide proper countermeasures against these threats. Eventually, the ultimate goal is to minimize security incidents attributed to these threats with proper countermeasures. This paper is focused to address home users using Windows operating system, i.e. Windows 95 and Windows 98. Based on my studies and comparisons of the different operating systems used by home users, many security incidents, such as worms transmitted via emails, flaws in file sharing affect home PCs running on Windows operating system compared to any other operating systems. CERT Advisory CA-2001-20 has reported of over 23 000 machines had been infected with the W32/Leaves worm, discovered in July 2001, which targets home users running on Windows operating system.
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