Re: downloads

From: Ozgirl (news_onlyxx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 22:06:54 +1100

"rona" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:051e01c3b57f$3948c410$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> From the microsoft internet explorer download page, I
> updated whatever needed to be updated, according to
the
> check the website made on my computer. Can anyone
please
> tell me why I now have 14 infected files, with the
> backdoor.coreflood virus and the download.trojan
virus
> (according to norton antivirus).

Patches and updates are only as secure as the computer
operator
allows them to be. Do you run a firewall? Do you use
IRC? Instant
Messenging programs? Do you swap pics back and forth in
these
programs with people? View webcams within these
programs?
Allow these programs to "act as a server" thru your
firewall? Whenever
you do things like that you allow a way for trojans and
worms to enter.
I think there is more risk of getting something rotten
through open ports
than email. We have become very "email" aware but
forget there is
more than one way for viruses to enter our machines.

The Cleaner from www.moosoft.com is a nice little
trojan detector/remover
utility. Keep your virus software running at all times
and updated daily, do a
full scan daily. Keep the firewall under strict
control.

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