Re: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] "Attachments killer"

True...some protection is better than none at all! But it's nice to know
you CAN catch some of them and maybe even do something about it. Maybe a
web site where individuals can post the ISP addresses of known viruses
sources is in order? Then maybe some programming genius can do some real
good by writing a virus that will attack the ISP addresses (computers) which
originate the viruses. Perhaps he/she'd get lucky and destroy the ones
coming from the government as well.

BTW...isn't there a way of finding out (generally) where a particular
address is coming from, or a way of sending a message to the address?

Smoke

>You only get messages for known attacks. One of
> the favorite ways of attacking these days are through bugs/holes in
> firewalls. It may upset some of you to know the government can and has
> directed such holes in the past, and they often get exploited by
> non-government hackers. Seen the recent exchange between McAfee and the
> FBI over Magic Lantern? Imagine how much goes on you don't know about.
> Although I'm not recommending that you do not run firewall software, I
> am warning that it is much less protection than you may think.
> You need to keep your OS software updated constantly, which also has
> problems - recently many Linux users lost their hardrives to a new
> kernel bug. There are no perfect solutions) - backup, be prudent.
>
> Mike