Re: More good news

George Graves wrote
(in article
<gmgraves-B04F44.12262206032006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article <kfYOf.245$oQ2.210@xxxxxxxx>, "Homey" <Nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thank GOD I run Windows XP Pro.

Yeah. It gets hacked in SECONDS.

I had occasion to boot up Windows XP Pro today on a system that
has been used for Linux (but still has the old XP Pro partition
on it) while looking for an old spread*** file.

As such, it had not been booted into XP for about 4 months.
Immediately after login, my virus program went out and grabbed
updates, and the Windows auto-update thing kicked off
downloading as well. Same thing for Zonealarm. I let all this
go ahead, and ate the mandatory reboots, reminding me why I left
XP in the first place.

After I boot back around, I fire up Ad-Aware Pro and download
the latest data for it. I run an Ad-Aware scan, it finds a few
minor items, which I let it clean off. Then I fire up Spybot,
and download the latest updates for it.

Keep in mind at this point, the only thing I have used a web
browser for in the last 160 days or so is to download the
updates in the last 10 minutes or so. I have visited ZERO other
sites. I have up-to-date Windows security patches, zonealarm,
ad-aware and now Spybot. I immunize all, then run a spybot
scan. It finds 87 items!

Not 3 or 4, but 87. 87 items *AFTER* Ad-Aware has declared it
golden. With no web browsing since the last time spybot said I
was golden. What this means is that the items had been there
all along, but the spyware data for both Ad-Aware and Spybot 4
months ago didn't know about them yet, and that even as of today
Ad-Aware STILL does not know about them. SPybot did, but no
telling how many neither of them know about.

The underlying problem here is that you never really know that
you are free of the crap, only that you are free of all those
that are detectable by the tools you are using.

Disgusting.


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Lefty
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..........right next to the potatoes and gravy.
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