Media scare mongering on internet security
by Species5618 on Oct.09, 2006, under General
This mornings Metro (south west edition) had an article going on about the high numbers of internet hacking attacks on PCs left switched on while connected to the internet, but the article was badly written, while it did mention “unprotected PCs”, but did not say that the PC had to be “directly” connected to the internet or even mention??that for as little as ??40 can purchase a router with integrated firewall which will provide and excellent first line of defence againt 99% of the??hacks which normally take out PCs which are left swicthed on !??
I??can only assume a similar article appeared in one of the tabloids, so i will probably spend this evening being bombarded by calls from various friends and family on the matter,???? 
:-(
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October 10th, 2006 on 5:43 pm
The story I read mentioned the Blaster worm, which was patched a very long time ago anyway. Your router comment is true, but I’ve found a sensibly set up XP machine with just shitty windows firewall will survive well enough if you don’t use IE or Lookout Express, switch on auto updates, and don’t use P2P filesharing or go looking for monkey pr0n. I’d still use the router though.
I’ve just been clearing up a typical spyware/adware/trojan festival for a neighbour: Guess what- he has 3 teenagers in the house, and they use filesharing and had been viewing ‘milfhunter.com’ etc.