Re: Protecting Home Machines

[Mateus I <mat_linux () terra com br>]

In-Reply-To: <003101c3b06e$49a2e810$01fea8c0@dot>

Never had tried that...good hint.
But I guess if the problem is over the net, a good firewall would solve the question.

Mateus

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> I have a sugestion :
>
> To prevent know malicious programs to infect you system, try create a folder
> with same name of the worm. If you have a worm named msblast.exe in system32
> folder, delete the file (you if have it), and create a msblast.exe folder in
> system32 folder.
>
> Then, if a malware try to install youself in system32 folder, the Windows
> don´t recognize the file...
>
> Tomás.
>
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