It's true enough...but probably rare. People can download/upload stuff to and from your computer without you knowing it. Get a firewall such as Zone Alarm. It's free and doesn't let anyone at all [not even you] access your i/o ports without your permission.
Ken
At 04:00 PM 10/3/01 EDT, you wr
Nah.urban legend. The network is totally safe, easily as safe as flying.
James-Osbourne: Holmes
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From: rogalt...@aol.com [mailto:rogalt...@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:01 PM
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Cc: Rosa Altman
Subject: CS>Fwd: [healthfraud] Comput
Hello ROGALTMAN,
Wednesday, October 03, 2001, 4:00:43 PM, you wrote:
Rac> List: Anyone know if this is true? Roger
Rac> In a message dated 10/3/2001 3:59:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Rac> mike...@aol.com writes:
>> Subj:[healthfraud] Computer Viruses
>> Date:10/3/2001 3:59:13 PM Eastern Dayli
Yes Roger, it is true and has been for some time.
As far as I know, every single web-based virus and e-mail based viruses that
use active X controls and loopholes in the windows explorer program, can be
fixed by downloading the patch directly from microsoft. When one stumbles upon
these kind o
Yes, it is true that if you visit a hostile site that you can have a
virus/trojan uploaded to your system using vbscripting or java.
There are various patches available from MS. Also you can re-name
wscript.exe to wscript.old in your windows dir or winnt\system32 dir for
win2k\NT
users. This may ma
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