Digital BW, The Print

Daniel Staver writes:

> One such virus was the Blaster worm which exploited a flaw in the RPC
> service to infect a machine. Any unpatched windows 2000 or windows XP 
> machine could be infected just by being connected to the internet.

Why doesn't the firewall stop it?

> In fact I got infected myself, in spite of having updated versions of
> Norton Antivirus on all my machines and never opening unknown email 
> attachments.

How did it get past your firewall?

> If it's true that you've never patched your machine you are
> still vulnerable to this particular worm, and probably many others.

I block essentially all incoming traffic at the firewall for desktop
client machines.  Doesn't everyone?