Blaster and Sasser were both aforementioned holes in windows (Blaster a DCOM RPC vulnerability in port 135, and Sasser an issue with Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) Both can be circumvented by having either the appropriate patch installed or upgrading to SP2.
I have never gotten netsky-z (communicable through email) but I did get an outbreak of Funlove about 3 years ago that came from a friend’s computer (through a suspicious email he should have never opened) and spread over LAN.
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Originally Posted by Steeltwo
as for running your computer wide open on the internet, go nuts
i'll give it three weeks before it is used as a funnel for some porn downloader.
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I, along with a great multitude of people I personally know have been running with out firewalls, antivirus, (which does not protect you from initial holes in windows security) and IE for the last two years, without incident. In fact I even talk with some of my friends who run firewalls and AV about the number to times they are port scanned or get real virus threats. The results were laughable. People are using this stuff as a crutch for common sense. I view radar detectors the same way.
Of couse this is all my personal opinion. Professionally, I agree with Steeltwo