Firewall so important
Sasser gone. To improve my knowledge of computers has anybody the time to answer the following qustions:-
Why didn't McFee spot I had the Sasser?
Why did Freeserve seem most vulnerable yet one other server, Supanet, seem immune to the Sasser?
When I found a firewall on the disc that came with the Toshiba laptop MSN 'said 'strongly recommend you do not load- it may not be compatible and could cause instability'. However,I already had a unstable laptop which kept closing down so I loaded it anyway. Eventually, I found a MSN website that told me how to go into the 'options' via Internet connections and there was 'enable firewall' button! Anybody like XELIOS firewall or should I dump and use the MSN/XP one?
As part of the debugging I deleted all cookies and found a MSN patch that would download without having to first download an XP update. At one attempt (of many) to download the update the window said it would take 6913 minutes ! - was this the sasser slowing things down or my rotten telephone/server? ( eventually it took only 2hours 30 minutes!)