Re: [PcTech] Recovering XP Pro after Thinkpad hard disk

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cause if you had a firewall in front of your computer, you wouldn't have
gotten the msblast virus either?

You can't crack a port if you can't get to it.  NO ONE should have had port
135 accessible from the internet.  People connected to the internet need to
run firewalls. Granted the average user doesn't know that, but we're all
tech oriented people.  None of us should have been attacked successfully by
Blaster.  If you did, it was because you are running in an insecure
environment, ultimately has nothing to do if  you are using Windows,
Macintosh, Linux or As/400.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:22 AM
Subject: RE: [PcTech] Recovering XP Pro after Thinkpad hard disk


> I am curious why the msn.com and hotmail customers have had zero problems
> with msblast or sobig?  How come Microsoft gets it right for them yet
blows
> up the rest of the World??
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
> Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Date: Thursday, August 28, 2003 7:00:28 AM
> To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
> Subject: RE: [PcTech] Recovering XP Pro after Thinkpad hard disk
>
> > I could move but I live and work in a nearly 700
> > year old fortified medieval stone gatehouse and I don't
> > wish to leave at present. There are no others around!
>
> COOL!! Who lives in the castle?
>
> > Apalling! Why aren't the large companies, such as IBM, doing
> > anything about this?
>
> Nobody really OWNS the Internet. So it is not really up to the big
companies
> to
> police it. If they would there would probably be all kinds of 1st
Amendment
> lawsuits. I think you should really be mad at Microsoft for creating an OS
> that
> is a virus haven. I just read an article last night about how MS says
Server
> 2003 is the most secure OS they have produced. The article goes onto say
> that
> MS has just released its 4th patch for the OS. And Server 2003 has not
been
> out
> that long. The 4th is a critical patch that, guess what, fixes a security
> hole.
>
> -- Scott Johnson
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