Maurice, No offence, but I believe that statement to be incorrect.
All the references that I believe you are referring to (the SANS institute report, etc.) do not mention switching on the firewall. That report was based on their studying of probes from the Internet which they deemed to be risky to a fresh XP machine out of the box. Nowhere have I seen that report mentioned where they talk about switching on the firewall. In fact, the SANS institute have a document (http://www.sans.org/rr/papers/index.php?id=1298) which specifically talk you through how to get a fresh XP PC to survive its first day, and one of the steps is to turn on the XP firewall. Cheers, C. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Like Magic If you take a new PC with windoze xp straight out of the box and turn on it's firewall then start downloading the windoze updates, since it was shipped, you will have a virus within 20 minutes which is shorter than the updates take to download on a modem. _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
