Re: Protecting Home Machines

tomasfrota_at_terra.com.br
Date: 11/21/03

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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:30:21 -0200

    I have a sugestion :

    To prevent know malicious programs to infect you system, try create a folder
    with same name of the worm. If you have a worm named msblast.exe in system32
    folder, delete the file (you if have it), and create a msblast.exe folder in
    system32 folder.

    Then, if a malware try to install youself in system32 folder, the Windows
    don´t recognize the file...

    Tomás.

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