It's really beginning to piss me off. The guys who invented this strand of viruses are geniouses in some respects, but I still want to shoot them for doing it...
I'm speaking of the rash of viri that scan ports and manipulate exploits in Windows. Every computer I get to on campus has it, due to some reason or another. I wish I could get to the upper management (like Networking Admins or the IT director) with some concrete evidence and info. about what to do!
We have a firewall to protect us from the outside, however, it seems that all it does is protect against hackers that use common tricks. But what about all of the viruses? My home network is more secure than the expensive school network: my roomate has a FreeBSD server running w/ a firewall...not a damn thing gets through that thing unless a request was sent from the inside. Why wouldn't my school do this
for free rather than spend G's of money on something that seems to let everything through?
And would end-user firewalls help, such as ZA or NIS? We've tried a variety of things, such as setting the hosts file to read-only, and changing a registry value to the Admin account to be the only "viewable" account...or something like that... But the viruses seem to get "smarter" by the day! People
still get them!
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