Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] mcafee self destructed

Smoke,

Check out http://www.grc.com and do some browsing. Don't know if Norton
fixed it's firewall software, but it was rated as very poor by Gibson.
Norton and some other firewalls install with a database of programs that
are to be granted automatic and unquestioned access to the net. Any
trojan program simply has to install itself using any of the
preauthorized filenames and it's in business. ZoneAlarm uses some form
of checksum protocol to verify a program really is what it's name says
it is.
GRC has a lot of great info, but the Denial of Service page though
lengthy, probably covers what nailed her computer.
FWIW, when I first ran across ZoneAlarm (just before finding out I had
some sort of virus) and installed it, I was getting a huge amount of
port scans. After doing a full fresh reinstall of NT on a brand new HD,
and installing ZoneAlarm/Norton right off the bat, I maybe only a couple
port scans a day. Could be wrong, but I suspect I might have had some
sort of trojan on my system as well as the virus. Hope you can fix her
computer without resorting to a new HD like I had to.

Jon