Security vendors have reported several new variants of the worm infecting PCs running Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system. Groups of virus writers are competing to cause the most damage, according to one security company, although the worm appears less severe than some first feared. 
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Member since:2005-07-06
"It requires 5 minutes of education"
Its a known fact that Microsoft security experts are given full creditation after 5 minutes.
"and a proper setup."
To bad your not sharing that proper ** Magical ** setup.
"That means an alternative browser and hardware/software firewall. "
All of those dont come included with Microsoft products by default ... sadly. In most case its not enough either.
"I spent 5 minutes explaining to my brother never to run anything he received in e-mail or over MSN, and never to download anything but MP3 and movie files off Kazaa. "
So this guy dont have anti-virus , no anti spyware , and as not upgraded is XP machine in a year ? Sorry to say he is infected ...
"spyware-free for a year,"
According to you ... Bu what can I say he has the ** Magical ** setup , with the Decent brand name hardware ...
Member since:2005-07-21
"and never to download anything but MP3 and movie files off Kazaa.
He's been spyware-free for a year, and he uses his computer for hours every day. It doesn't take genius"
Don't get me wrong here but doesn't Kazaa come with a whole load of spyware? So your statement that he's spyware free while using Kazaa seems rather hard to believe.
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2005-07-06
It requires 5 minutes of education, and a proper setup. That means an alternative browser and hardware/software firewall. I spent 5 minutes explaining to my brother never to run anything he received in e-mail or over MSN, and never to download anything but MP3 and movie files off Kazaa.
He's been spyware-free for a year, and he uses his computer for hours every day. It doesn't take genius.