I am thinking of instituting a class action suite
against Micro Soft and Hewlett Packard for 100 billion dollars.
Invasion of privacy guaranteed by the Constitution of the
United States. That is a billion with a B.

I was stupid enough to hook my HP Windows computer to the
Internet for only a few minutes. My HP computer called
Microsoft and said: "Here I am.. screw with me." Microsoft
entered my computer through the secret back door and changed
the operating system!

No damages need be proven. The fact is: Microsoft broke and entered.

Paul Lamar

Hi Paul -

anyone know what ports are used for the above snitch ? There are
`activation removers ' out there which I do not trust. Hardware
firewalls help. Also try & find out what can be deleted ( if anything)
to stop the above saga.

Internet Exploder has tick - boxes for "Enable Redirection" and "Look
for updates " also the settings for "windoze updates " should be
checked.

Other than that - find " ie.exe " , * Delete * it and have a look at
the registry. Use a linux box to download Opera & FireFox.


While we are on the subject - avoid Maxtor hard disks - at least in the
IDE/ATA interface. A high drop - dead rate awaits !

Fly & build good -
Bryan

When I last looked into this - XP had just come out, they used 443 for
the communications to M$. You'd have to use a physical firewall to block
traffic to M$. Problem is, if you don't keep the system patch for all
security vulnerabilities, you will get infected. In big companies I've
worked at, a fresh unpatched XP box will get infected with no use
interaction within 5 - 20 minutes of being plugged into the network.
Back ground virus "noise" if you will. Many of the high end malware these
days will wack your anti-virus right off the bat, so you're equally
doomed here.

-dave arbogast, CISSP


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