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The Register points out that last month was just about the worst month ever for Viruses and worms. I was one of the many that got hit. I went to a roundtable discussion lastt week, and the hotel it took place at has wireless. So I connected up and started taking notes. About 5 minutes in my machine crashed - no blue screen, just a shutdown. I thought it was odd, and one of the participants said I might have a worm - I went and loaded patches and stopped thinking about it. Well, that was shutting the barn door after the fact...
I had been noticing really bad network connectivity, and my ISP was assuring me that the signal strength was ok the last couple of days. So I took a close look - and there was the worm that 'fiixes' blaster. What it was doing was sucking down my bandwidth. Removing it fixed the problem immediately. The simple moral of the story - I now have firewall software for Windows, mostly for the times I go mobile. Should have known better, but there's complacency for you....
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