Re: OT: latest threats....

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Jordan wrote: ≪Drop Win in favor of Linux or eCS (at least for Mail &
browsing), and all these concerns go Pfffffttt≫


See

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2006/06/
raising_the_bar_rustocka_advan.html


for a current assessment of the newest generation of malware which made
its debut last week. Vista is not immune.


I discovered quite by chance how 'chatty' the Net was as I had been
working with a protocol analyser (sniffer) outside my firewall on the
worst affected days. My Mac G4 was unaffected by the "worm-storm", by
the way, but I have had to reconfigure my firewall to shield my w2k
machines.