home computer security

"In recent weeks, the CERT/CC has observed an increase in the number of reports of systems running Windows 2000 and XP compromised due to poorly protected file shares."

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-08.html

Thanks Satt!

"Another critical Windows flaw found."
(Security updates are available at Windows Update.)

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109882,00.asp

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58124,00.html

"Microsoft on Wednesday warned about a serious flaw in almost every version of its popular Windows software that could allow malicious hackers to seize control of a person's computer when victims read e-mails or visit websites."

iraq war and information security

http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/iraq.shtml

The following is not necessarily the one for home users, but may give some insights about internet traffic conditions.


the internet health report

"Windows 2000 Security Flaw Worse Than First Thought"

http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=8100055

Spyware: It's Lurking on Your Machine

Microsoft Patches
"There is a flaw in the way the kernel passes error messages to a debugger. A vulnerability results because an attacker could write a program to exploit this flaw and run code of their choice. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take any action on the system including deleting data, adding accounts with administrative access, or reconfiguring the system."

Abolish the home computer. Send messages via smoke signals.

Actually, these kinds of things are everyday affairs in PC's. I'm simply picking up some of relevant topics.

This site Microsoft Watch will offer everyday information about PCs, not only about securities.

Besides my usual AntiVirus program and my Firewall, I use this against the spyware, adware, hijackers and all that nasty stuff that is snuck on your 'puter while surfing Spybot Search & Destroy . It detects everything, destroys it, and since a coupla weeks, immunizes your pc, i.e. mends little securityholes. Spybot is for free, and available in many different languages.

New Haven- Good idea, except for one thing- The E.P.A. would probably pass a law against it!

A virus, named Fizzer, is ranked as level 1 alert according to F-Secure.

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/fizzer.shtml


"Fizzer is a complex e-mail worm that appeared on the 8th of May, 2003. The worm can spread itself in e-mails and in Kazaa P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing network. Fizzer worm has a built-in IRC backdoor, a DoS (Denial of Service) attack tool, a data stealing trojan (uses external keylogger DLL), an HTTP server and some more components. The worm has the functionality to kill tasks of certain anti-virus programs. Additionally the worm has autoupdating capabilities."