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Originally Posted by Tachyon
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.
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who has up to date patches?
not many
plus if I remember correctly, blaster's patch was only out a day or two before the big wave of crap. And for the next few days, getting the patch from MS's servers took a LONG time. I remember download speeds of 3-4k.
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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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never got a case of that, did get some darth vader one thru ICQ a long time ago.
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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
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a few friends have had their computers trojan horsed a little while ago. It's funny, they'd pop in their cd drive, the game would be running and it'd pop out. or their printer would start printing some ghey porn. :-D
at work, the crisco pix picks up around 18-20 scans per day. And during the blaster and sasser times, it was getting hit on the port about 10,000 times per day at least. It was probly more.
and ameritech says their network is secure
HA