Originally posted by qtiger
Yeah well... people are lazy and cheap, and then they gripe to MS when their own stupidity bites them on the ass.
I know!
The security hole was announced, and a patch was released on
7/16/03
everyone predicted that someone would create a worm that would take advantage of it.
The worm came around on
8/11/03
the entire thing can be prevented with a good firewall. hell, XP has one built in to it!!! some people can't figure out how to turn it on!
Originally posted by tony
its really easy to remove. if you get it again just delete it. i'm using free trail virus protection for now
sorry, but that's not enough, you need to get a firewall. I used the free version of ZoneAlarm back in the dial-up days:
http://www.zonelabs.com
XP has one built in to it, and it shows all-stealth status on
http://www.grc.com