On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:33, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Dear list... > > I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you > have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : > > A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years > old). She absolutely needed Windows in order to run some special, > school-related apps. The PC came with WinXP pre-installed. > > The first thing I did was to install Mozilla, OpenOffice and some > sort of firewall, called ZoneAlarm. Now, I thought it was safe.... > > Suddenly, when she tries to send an e-mail (from within Mozilla, of > course, I'm not THAT stupid), up pops a message from our ISP saying > that the box is compromized, accordingly the smtp-server won't > accept the mail. In fact, her IP was blacklisted. > > Some on-line security scans, revealed no less than 159 trojans, > worms and viruses !
Hi Kaj, I see you've received plenty of replies re adaware, Zone Alarm etc. You say that you need XP for school related apps, but does this include internet access? If not, I would suggest you dual-boot, set up a FAT 32 partition to store data that can be read by both XP & Linux, and use linux for emails, web. file transfers, etc. yes, virii can be transferred by a linux box, but you'll stand a better chance of catching it. Paul M
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