On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 12:21 +0100, jdd wrote:
Magnus Boman wrote:
One of my colleges in the office installed a windows box less than a week ago, to try to reproduce an issue that his customers had. He then left it overnight (the machine is sitting behind a firewall and the only access to the internet will be NATed) and when he came back the next day, he had viruses all over the place. All he did was to install the box. He didn't use it at all. But viruses (worms, whatever) still manage to get in there... So, as a security measure, always take the necessary precautions. If we're not targeted today, we might be tomorrow!
may be somebody used it when it turned back...
No, this was in his own vmware session and nobody would have used that machine.
I have a windows box very often on 24/24 and never get a virus (never get one I don't dl myself)
I hope you have the latest anti-virus stuff and all the latest patches installed on there.
may be also what your friends see like a virus if the normal windows way of like (spyware are common on regular windows applications)
No, this was a virus. I can find out exactly which virus it was if you want to. The point is, sad but true, that if you install a windows box and don't apply the latest patches straight away, together with an anti-virus program, you will get viruses on there without even browsing the internet!
jdd
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