On 19 Jun 2004, at 3:43 am, Robert Seeberger wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>A Windo$e PC only needs to be connected to broadband for as little as 10 minutes to catch a full dose of spam remailers and back-doors unless it has a firewall to protect it. And they shipped them with the software firewall *off* by default until recently...
Willy....Ya kill me!<G> Someone has been harvesting emails from this list for quite a while. I've been getting spams from sources that suspiciously resemble listmembers addresses for many months now. (Either that or a listmembers machine has been compromised.) I'm behind hardware and software firewalls. I'm moderately safe in that regard, but I still use several programs to provide for greater protection beyond that. The interesting thing is that the viral spams are coming from several sources. I'm betting Apple users get those same emails regardless of the fact that they are not infectable by the same viruses as PCs.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/21/ 0024208&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=172&tid=185&tid=190&tid=201
" reallocate writes "Can a home user install and update Windows without being attacked by a virus or worm? I'm a Linux user; have been since 1995. Recently, I needed to install Windows XP Pro on a home desktop machine with a Roadrunner cable connection. I tried twice. Both times, the machine was attacked and rendered unusable before I was able to pull down the first update from Windows Update." Read on for more details of what went wrong and when."
-- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
"Our products just aren't engineered for security." - Brian Valentine, senior vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development team.
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