Re: Which Firewall?
From: Wolfgang Kueter (wolfgang_at_shconnect.de)
Date: 06/03/04
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:06:34 +0200
Leythos wrote:
> In the one weeks time I was gone her machine was infected with 380+
> different spyware apps, and more than 40 virus's/trojans.
'It was infected' sounds like hat this didn't require end user interaction.
I doubt that.
> Needless to
> say, they didn't do anything other than turn it on, get through the
> basic startup config, and start using it.
Does 'using a system' include 'installation of malware'?
> This is your classic user,
> your classic level of users on home systems.
Most filtering devices placed in front of a box do not prevent installing
malware by the user himself.
> Had they installed the Linksys router they would have been a LOT better
> off and I would not have had to wipe/reinstall from scratch.
You would since the router does not prevent the installation of malware.
> I installed XP Prof, NAV 2004, Spybot Search & Destroy, set the "Internet"
zone to
> "HIGH" and the Trusted Zone to medium, then showed her how to add
> trusted sites to the trusted zone. I also installed her Office XP and
> Outlook XP. She's been running for a couple months now and not one
> problem.
Well, some time ago I reinstalled an infected win2000 workstation of a quite
unskilled user. I patched the installation, switched off all services, set
user and access rights strict using good passwords, configured IE properly,
told the user that he must not log in as adminsitrator unless for
maintainance tasks. No problems with the machine.
Wolfgang
-- A foreign body and a foreign mind never welcome in the land of the blind Peter Gabriel, Not one of us, 1980
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