Re: Dlink.com.sg intrusion with worm??



Most people "need" a firewall because they have no idea what their computer
is running - and by default windoze comes with a lot of stuff enabled because
microsoft thinks it may be useful to a few, and that no one knows or wants to
know how to enable it. Thus, it's available to be exploited by default. If
people learned how to disable the garbage, there wouldn't be a need for a
personal firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, and the rest of that mess.
Contrary to what you may believe, there isn't a "Mal-ware Fairy" that comes
around and installs bad stuff on your computer. It gets installed by the user
who has no idea what they are doing.

Old guy

I am all with you,
but until people learn how to use their pc, I suggest to give them advice they can easily follow.
Not everybody is interested in hardening their system and learning about exploits or tcp/ip.

what's the other option?
they get taken over, they spam and spread viruses and are used for illegal filesharing - probably w/out them even knowing.
and the experts can point fingers and say: why don't you use linux/unix/whatever and why didn't you protect
your system ?

and - no offense to Luther- when someone states

This website from a well know network company attemped to intrude into my system.
....
However today I got a shock from Norton anti virus popup.


,I think they are not very familiar with anything related to comp security.


M
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