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> -----Original Message----- > From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / David Gibbs > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:11 AM > > I don't have any of the 'phone home baddies' ... I keep my virus > protection current and run a spyware scanner (AdAware by > http://www.lavasoft.de/) on a regular basis on all my Windows systems > (mine, my wifes, and my play machine). My other two machines run Linux > and I only open the necessary ports. > > Inbound email has two layers of virus protection ... mail server and > workstation. > > Additionally, I don't run IE and *NEVER* run applications or open zip > files from people I don't know. I thought Sasser showed the fallacy that one is safe as long as you behave safely. Sasser showed that one only had to have Windows running and the broadband on to be infected. Rhetorically asking, in my default configuration for the router, is the port that Sasser used to enter the system open or closed? db
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