On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:42:16PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
North Texas charges students $30 if their computer is infected, and needs to be cleaned.
Excellent, perhaps they'll learn early that they have to patch often.
..... don't want to pay McAfee, Symantec, etc for anti-virus software;
Please show me an anti-virus product for the desktop that protects against such things, I've disinfected at least 30 machines this week that have McAfee VirusShield or Norton Antivirus installed with automatic updates enabled (and yes, I verified they all had the latest virus definitions), they'll happily sit there spewing shit to the world until they're rebooted (a few weeks later, now that windows will happily kludge along but not completely crash) then you get a wonderful dialog that says: 'Warning $anti-virus-program has found an infected file $FOO but could not delete it' Why couldn't it delete it? Because the file was set read only, and the software is too dumb to attrib -r $file And no, $upstream should not be filtering my connection, if you see activity from my network and I don't respond to a friendly notice, turn off my circuit. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203