[huskerlug] Firestarter

Firestarter is indeed easy and seems to work pretty well.

The first thing I noticed is that I'm now blocking ms-rpc from computers
all over the us and even as far as brazil.  Is this an indication of
infected pcs, or does windows normally sprinkle these packets randomly
across the net?

I know when my wife turns on here XP machine, it has always caused the
light on my dsl router to blink at a constant rate of a blink about every
second and a half.

We use two layers of security for her XP machine as far a e-mail.  First,
it all gets scanned with f-prot on my machine, and second, she is only
allowed to use web-based mail.  She is also not allowed to use IE.  I also
check daily for updates.

I also downloaded the McAfee from software.unl.edu.  Now all of her
documents are scanned twice: once by f-prot on my machine and then my
McAfee.

Thus we have a perfectly working XP machine as long as we don't leave it
on too long. It still crashes at night if we forget to shut it off.  I
think it has something to do with power management.  It ran Linux for
quite a while before we got married and didn't have this problem.


David.


Oh, and remember, Linux doesn't get virii because it is too primative.
Once it gets enhanced with the rich funtionality of Microsoft's advanced
scripting host, Linux will be just as powerful as Windows.

Does it run in wine?  Can I please get a virus? Can I? Oh, please, can I?


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