Hello Gonçalo Farias & everyone else, on 04-Dez-2004 at 18:12 you (Gonçalo Farias) wrote:
> Maybe, maybe not. Did AV programs did any good to anybody who had them > running when the Blaster/Welchia epidemy was wild? Yes. The moment the signature files were updated the worm was recognized and deactivated. Its the perfect example on why a firewall and spyware blocker is not enough. ASK>> If you, for example, were using IE last week to visit harmless ASK>> websites that show harmless ads provided by falkag.de you're probably ASK>> the victim of the bofra/iframe exploit. > Don't know. I regularly patch my system! :) The iframe hole was patched 01-Dec... the exploit existed for at least 10 days. On 24-Nov I visited ebay with IE and my virus scanner blocked the above said attack, coming from ad-hoster Falk AG. If it weren't for the virus scanner I'd have a compromised system now. > Oh, and I use Firefox! :) I normally use Opera, but its darn slow with the ebay pages and as a seller you can't use the ActiveX picture service with anything but IE. -- Best regards, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981) using TB! v3.0.2.10 on Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2 The land belongs to the future... we come and go, but the land is always there. -- Willa Carter ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
