[Moon-net] MonaRonaDona & infections

[Jeffrey Pawlan]

Dear Darrell and folks,

   May I offer two observations and a suggestion which will be useful to all and
not only to Darrell:

1.  Even though you are behind firewalls and you use Eudora, you are internally
networked to other computers in your house. The infection has probably spread to
all other computers in your house and it is probably crafted so that it will
recognize any machine on your Windoz network and transfer itself to every
machine.

2.  If you are not exceedingly careful to which sites you go to and exceedingly
careful on how you supposedly close popup windows or ads, then the viruses and
trojan programs willl continue to come in through the firewall because you have
in essence given permission to the firewall to pass them.

My solution which works 100% is to not run Windoz for any email nor for web
browsing except for groups on yahoo. I run a version of unix called Solaris 9 on
an inexpensive Sun workstation. You can get Solaris 10 for free that runs on a
Pentium or AMD computer. Use this instead of Windoz.  I have my own mailserver
here for my domain and thus I am connected all the time. Many hackers attempt to
get in and also try to relay through me. But there has never ever been a
successful attempt nor a crash in 10 years of running Solaris 8 and 9. No
viruses will execute no matter how they are encloded.
  Besides the Sun, I have 15 computers including laptops but I only use them to
run programs and not for the internet. I have DOS 5, Win98, Win2K, and XP-prof.
and not one is infected. They are all able to be on my network. Besides the
Windoz networking, I transfer files to and from the Sun via ftp.


73,

Jeffrey Pawlan  WA6KBL