[ale] OT: Infected Winbloze machines

[cfowler]

I'm using an iptables based firewall.  Will that help me in any way?

Chris

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 14:51, Zyman, Andy wrote:
> run ad-aware.... You will find lots of interesting things on your machine.
> Plus get rid from _ALL_ p2p - Morpheuos, Kazaa etc. Install Kazaa lite. And
> sleep well.
> Plus i would also recommend to put firewall on Your win comp.
> AZ
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cfowler [mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:57 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] OT: Infected Winbloze machines
> > 
> > 
> > Well.  I;m starting to suspect Kazaa.  I went to luch today and cam
> > back. On my work machine was 2 porn pop-ups.  I had just logged in
> > before leaving and nothing was running.
> > 
> > I found 3 programs.
> > 
> > 1) EzSearch Bar
> > 2) n-CASE
> > 3) n-CASE
> > 
> > Now I do not know whow these progras go installed without my prior
> > approaval but I think Kazaa did it.  Is there a way to 
> > protect from this
> > infection?
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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