Re: How secure is your Windows Computer?

From: N1POP (google_at_n1pop.cjb.net)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: 21 May 2004 12:18:23 -0700

administrator@spam.yellowhead.com (John Coutts) wrote in message news:<10as2mco1g2m69f@corp.supernews.com>...
> Anyone with a high speed Internet connection is a potential target to
> install a Spam engine complete with back door. The back door is usually

Spam is a tasty lunchmeat and a trademark, where spam is the moniker
for unwanted email.

> installed via a virus, and then the Spam engine is added via the backdoor. A
> good hacker will lock the back door when he/she leaves so that no one else can
> use it.

Anyone with an Internet connection is a potential target, the
broadband flavors are just more tasty.

And anyone can make themselves very immune by following some of the
guidelines posted in this gropu and elsewhere, such as running a
firewall appliance, installing, updating and regularly running
anti-virus and spyware programs, hardening the browser and email
clients against exploits, and practicing safe-surfing habits.

After all, if the virus can't get into the computer, then there is no
back door, thus no way to install a spam engine or allow any other
malicious activity.

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