Re: A question about Firewall in XP

From: Sami Garzon (spgarzon_at_ig.com.br)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:17:22 +0200

"Robert" <Crockett151283@hotmail.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> I am personally convinced that if everybody
>
> a) had a good regularly updated antivirus (I can recommend the eTrust EZ
> Antivirus for absolute efficiency and ultra-fast reactivity),
> b) ran some kind of firewall on their systems,
> c) used mail filtering programs like MailWasher,
> d) and above all avoided opening suspicious messages with attachments,

Add:

e) Had its OS updated (I can recommend windowsupdate),

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