Re: Yet another Mass e-mail worm TM - Gibe-F/Swen-A - E-mail from Microsoft

From: Dave (dave_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/20/03 

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:21:25 -0700

"Rev Turd Fredericks" <turdfred@catholic.org> wrote in message
news:PM0003C7B79D9EA844@dhcppc2.reshsg.uci.edu...
>
> My wife got the msblast virus merely by
> turning off her firewall to play a game.

Microsoft advocates are claiming that XP is just as secure as Linux, that
you can't get a virus without doing something stupid, like clicking on an
email attachement. Could you tell us more about this incident. Does "play
a game" mean download some program and run it? Why would you need to turn
off a firewall to play a game on your own computer?

I've also heard that msblast can infect a computer without *any* user
interaction. I was told this by a system administrator who takes care of
hundreds of Windows workstations. I asked him what network services were
running on the computers (telnet, ftp, etc.) and he said none. The virus
can apparently propagate with just the basic network communication
protocols.

- Dave

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