Ah...yet a new Microsoft related virus...

[bwid_s_01]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/02/worm/index.html

[Faust]

Hey it's an email message from someone I don't know!  Lemme just double click on this here attachment! Oh no wait! Outlook did it for me!

(And you *know* normal people should have that many exclamation marks.  They just always sound so chirpy...  Makes you feel like slapping them.    )

[raptor]

all of these M$ windows users "SHOULD" realize that M$ will always have ongoing bug, and virus problems, and should not be suprised when an intruder dimoloshes their system.


if they were in linux they could mess with IP chains!    

[ August 03, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by raptor:
all of these M$ windows users "SHOULD" realize that M$ will always have ongoing bug, and virus problems, and should not be suprised when an intruder dimoloshes their system.


if they were in linux they could mess with IP chains!      

[ August 03, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]

Yeah, great. Except IP Chains (2.2) is useless when compared to IP Tables (2.4).

Geeze.

[raptor]

ip tables are good.

[raptor]

quote:Originally posted by bwid_s_01:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/02/worm/index.html

a solution to this problem would just be to use

firebird or mozilla. available at http://mozilla.org

[wargames_guru]

Outlook has caused literally Millions of dollars in damage thru the years, just due to the fact that it automagically forwards "code" to any/everyone in the address book, and Yet Uncle bill has yet to fix this garbage. So actually the US Gov't is to blame, since it has not forced uncle bill to fix his software, and instead just goes after the writers of virii.
hhmmm, ponder that for a while.

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:


Yeah, great. Except IP Chains (2.2) is useless when compared to IP Tables (2.4).

Geeze.

Chains are also in 2.4.  They are not useless.

Stateful firewalling has some distinct advantages but stateless firewalling requires less RAM and CPU overhead.