MS suggested Security Registry Tweaks

in the early morning on Wednesday, the 16th of March 2005 by Anarchy

In a recent Microsoft article on Security Myths, Jesper M. Johansson and Steve Riley made a point of spelling out a few common misconceptions in plain English. I liked the article simply because it was written simply enough that even my manager understood it. The following is my favorite part:

If you are one of the unfortunate people who get evaluated based on the number of settings you make, go ahead and make a bunch of these meaningless changes. Heck, invent a few of your own (everyone else seems to). The following are a few you could use without breaking anything:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DisableHackers=1 (REG_DWORD)

HKLM\Wetware\Users\SocialEngineering\Enabled=no (REG_SZ)

HKCU\Wetware\Users\CurrentUser\PickGoodPassword=1 (REG_BINARY)

HKLM\Hardware\CurrentSystem\FullyPatched=yes (REG_SZ)

HKLM\Software\AllowBufferOverflows=no (REG_SZ)