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Re: Protecting Home Machines
From: Mateus I <mat_linux () terra com br>
Date: 24 Nov 2003 14:38:38 -0000
In-Reply-To: <003101c3b06e$49a2e810$01fea8c0@dot> Never had tried that...good hint. But I guess if the problem is over the net, a good firewall would solve the question. Mateus
Received: (qmail 32689 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2003 23:54:35 -0000 Received: from outgoing2.securityfocus.com (205.206.231.26) by mail.securityfocus.com with SMTP; 23 Nov 2003 23:54:35 -0000 Received: from lists.securityfocus.com (lists.securityfocus.com [205.206.231.19]) by outgoing2.securityfocus.com (Postfix) with QMQP id 763F88F738; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:53:33 -0700 (MST) Mailing-List: contact security-basics-help () securityfocus com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <security-basics.list-id.securityfocus.com> List-Post: <mailto:security-basics () securityfocus com> List-Help: <mailto:security-basics-help () securityfocus com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:security-basics-unsubscribe () securityfocus com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:security-basics-subscribe () securityfocus com> Delivered-To: mailing list security-basics () securityfocus com Delivered-To: moderator for security-basics () securityfocus com Received: (qmail 11780 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2003 14:25:48 -0000 Message-ID: <003101c3b06e$49a2e810$01fea8c0@dot> From: <tomasfrota () terra com br> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> References: <2DBB25F6DB41D311AFCB00A024574CBD01F621C8@MANGO> Subject: Re: Protecting Home Machines Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:30:21 -0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 I have a sugestion : To prevent know malicious programs to infect you system, try create a folder with same name of the worm. If you have a worm named msblast.exe in system32 folder, delete the file (you if have it), and create a msblast.exe folder in system32 folder. Then, if a malware try to install youself in system32 folder, the Windows don´t recognize the file... Tomás. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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