Windows woes

[Georg Wrede]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Dave wrote:
> 
>> In article <e0io88$22jc$2 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
>> 
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> 
>>>> At this point, it was apparent that tech support had no idea
>>>> why this was happening, and I was beginning to worry there was
>>>> either a rootkit installed, or there was just creeping
>>>> corruption going on. I gave up on Microsoft tech support, and
>>>> decided to reinstall Windows.
>>> 
>>> Turns out, I did have a trojan rootkit on my system. arrgh!
>> 
>> Any idea how that happened / made it onto your system? (it has me 
>> worried that virus scanning didn't pick it up).
> 
> I have no idea how it got on. Being a trojan, I must have run
> something. I'm usually very careful about not running anything I am
> not sure of, careful enough that this is the first virus/trojan I've
> had in 10 years.
> 
> I'm almost to the point of using a separate sacrificial machine for
> web surfing.

You _should_! I do. Some Really In-The-Know people do. And they're not 
even paranoid.

This has not come up, but now having thrown OE for Thunderbird, would 
you like to consider Firefox for IE? Rumors tell me that merely visiting 
hostile sites can install a rootkit, without you even touching a "link" 
on the page. On IE, that is.

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PS, D might not feel like any Military Grade, High Treason, National 
Secrets. (At least I wouldn't feel like it if I had developed it.) But, 
to others, (ask the spooks or the Pygmy's guys,) D stuff might really be 
Important Stuff. (Or at least a trophy.)

Not to mention that even if (!) we all (!) do consider D as a lot safer 
[than the others], a yellow-paper headline telling the world that the 
Afganisthans stole the D back-end source code, would be an irreparable 
dent. In the Public Image of the "D Programming Language" anyway. Right?

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Oh and please, don't _ever_ install a firewall or a NAT box at 
home!!!!!!!!! (Trust me, I know what I'm doing! (Quoted from the TV 
show, I forget the name.))

ONLY have EACH individual computer protected with it's OWN firewall!!!