Re: [PCTECH] Need firewall protection,

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

port 445 to infect and I would "guess" from the size of the
infection it is not blocked by default - anyone know?
Do remember that a corporate firewall and your
average dsl/broadband router setups are very different.
jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:04 AM
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Need firewall protection,


> > -----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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