For quite a long time, I only used my Win2k box through a Linux IP Masquerading gateway. But during a long stay at a hotel, while looking for a new place to live, I noticed that my dialup modem activity lights flickered even when I myself wasn't doing anything online.
I asked a friend who recommended a firewall product whose name escapes me just now. Most coders think of a "firewall" as a way to keep bad packets out. This firewall would also keep bad packets _in_.
It identified the miscreant as the Welchia worm. What Welchia does is to install some completely legitimate Win2k security updates, as well as installing itself on some other Win2k box.
The only really _bad_ thing it did was to slow down my network.
MichaelCrawford|11 years ago
I asked a friend who recommended a firewall product whose name escapes me just now. Most coders think of a "firewall" as a way to keep bad packets out. This firewall would also keep bad packets _in_.
It identified the miscreant as the Welchia worm. What Welchia does is to install some completely legitimate Win2k security updates, as well as installing itself on some other Win2k box.
The only really _bad_ thing it did was to slow down my network.