The comment was made about Brenna's account for several very simple reasons (each of which I've talked with her about).
I'd been keeping Norton Anti-Virus updated regularly. Norton only works really well to the point that it's left "enabled." Peter, there were more than a few ocassions that I'd find Brenna's account logged in on the computer and both the Anti-Virus and Firewall protections disabled. Whether it was done it knowingly or because of on-line activities (by her or Trish), it was left on-line and vunerable. Norton also was set for regular scans.
I've also been keeping Windows XP fully patched and updated. I'd had ALL the automatic updates loaded and patched according to the Microsoft homepage even as of the first of Febuary (when I performed a routine system check). I looked up the Sasser worm and it's variants yesterday here at work and was surprised that it exploits a security failure in the system that according to all my updating shouldn't have existed. Perhaps that's one reason I'm more than a bit frustrated by this situation (and the suggestion that I was lax).
I will probably load Firefox on the system once I get the computer back to normal and have everything updated (again).
I do appreciate your thoughtful suggestions, but I have been obsessively thorough about system updates and security. The system was up to date. This situation leads me to believe its something that was downloaded inadvertently through poor web discipline.
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Re: Sasser
Date: 2007-03-06 05:49 pm (UTC)I'd been keeping Norton Anti-Virus updated regularly. Norton only works really well to the point that it's left "enabled." Peter, there were more than a few ocassions that I'd find Brenna's account logged in on the computer and both the Anti-Virus and Firewall protections disabled. Whether it was done it knowingly or because of on-line activities (by her or Trish), it was left on-line and vunerable. Norton also was set for regular scans.
I've also been keeping Windows XP fully patched and updated. I'd had ALL the automatic updates loaded and patched according to the Microsoft homepage even as of the first of Febuary (when I performed a routine system check). I looked up the Sasser worm and it's variants yesterday here at work and was surprised that it exploits a security failure in the system that according to all my updating shouldn't have existed. Perhaps that's one reason I'm more than a bit frustrated by this situation (and the suggestion that I was lax).
I will probably load Firefox on the system once I get the computer back to normal and have everything updated (again).
I do appreciate your thoughtful suggestions, but I have been obsessively thorough about system updates and security. The system was up to date. This situation leads me to believe its something that was downloaded inadvertently through poor web discipline.