ASK> Hello Gonçalo Farias & everyone else, ASK> 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? ASK> Yes. The moment the signature files were updated the worm was recognized ASK> and deactivated. Its the perfect example on why a firewall and spyware ASK> blocker is not enough. Sorry. My experience with the Blaster/Welchia was that having or not an AV running meant nothing because you had to patch the system in order to avoid further contamination. Having a firewall did in fact prevent the contamination because both worms would ping prior to contaminate. Again, do you know Tiny Personal Firewall (http://www.tinysoftware.com) ? 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! :) ASK> The iframe hole was patched 01-Dec... the exploit existed for at least 10 ASK> days. On 24-Nov I visited ebay with IE and my virus scanner blocked the ASK> above said attack, coming from ad-hoster Falk AG. If it weren't for the ASK> virus scanner I'd have a compromised system now. I suppose you mean 2 of Dec to all systems that didn't already have WinXP SP2. >> Oh, and I use Firefox! :) ASK> I normally use Opera, but its darn slow with the ebay pages and as a seller ASK> you can't use the ActiveX picture service with anything but IE. :) Best regards, Goncalo Farias -- "Hi, I'm Barney..." <BLAM!> Now you're extinct. ________________________________________________________ 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/
