Whooped too soon!
Ah, the euphoria of free internet access was short lived!
In the 5 minutes that I had the PC connected directly to the wireless bridge (i.e., no firewall/router) I got infected with FOOBOT - or some familiar sounding virus - and was nodoubt responsible for SPAMing several hundred million people.
Trickly little blighter. The first thing it does is update your .../etc/hosts/ file and aliases Symantec, McAfee, etc., to localhost. So when you try to go out and buy an anti-virus product you get Server Not Responding messages.
Lucky I know a thing or too about these personal comfuser things.
Renamed sys32.exe and rebooted. That stopped the fucker. Then used the Linksys to shutdown all my outgoing ports, except HTTP, until I get secure again.
In the 5 minutes that I had the PC connected directly to the wireless bridge (i.e., no firewall/router) I got infected with FOOBOT - or some familiar sounding virus - and was nodoubt responsible for SPAMing several hundred million people.
Trickly little blighter. The first thing it does is update your .../etc/hosts/ file and aliases Symantec, McAfee, etc., to localhost. So when you try to go out and buy an anti-virus product you get Server Not Responding messages.
Lucky I know a thing or too about these personal comfuser things.
Renamed sys32.exe and rebooted. That stopped the fucker. Then used the Linksys to shutdown all my outgoing ports, except HTTP, until I get secure again.
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