Re: Can spammer worm get transfered via floppy disk?

From: Hal Berenson (haroldb@truemountainconsulting.com)
Date: 02/13/03 

From: "Hal Berenson" <haroldb@truemountainconsulting.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:57:57 -0800

VPN is one possibility. 

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Hal Berenson
True Mountain Consulting
"Mike" <mikefantasy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:016c01c2d2db$9d382b50$3301280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a client who even though all incoming packets
> other than http and smtp are blocked, they got infected
> with the work.  They had a msde based accounting
> application that wasn't patched.
>
> My question is how would they get infected in the first
> place if port 1434 UDP was blocked for incoming packets?
> Outgoing was not but I don't see how it could happen.  Am
> I missing something?

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