On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 1:23:08 PM, Alexander wrote: A> The only permanent cure against Blaster (or any other worm that is A> yet to come, exploiting the same vunerability) is to close Port 135, A> 139, 445 for remote access from the internet with a firewall (even A> the built-in fw in WinXP will do) and install the KB823980 patch from A> MS. *Anyone* with WinNT4, 2000 or XP is advised to do so immediately, A> read MS03-26.
Okay, so should my *firewall* have protected me then? I don't seem to be experiencing any problems, other than difficulties downloading from AVG (which I suspect has more to do with their servers being over-run by people doing the same thing than anything about my computer). I'm running the Symantec tool anyway, & have dl'd the patch to install right afterwards. Oh, the Symantec tool has just finished, & it says I'm clean :-). Off to install the patch now :-) -- Deborah ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
