Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "weareallsosmall"
<weareallsosmall@y...> wrote:
> A friend of mine has been running XP pro for a while now with no
> antivirus software and no firewall except the one that comes with
> windows, and hasn't even installed SP1, despite my advise against it.
> She hasn't noticed anything out of the ordinary that would indicate
> infection (is there a way to check btw?). 

Without proper safegards, internet intrusions are unnoticeable. Your
computer can be hijacked and rented out in sabotage-for-hire rackets
without your knowlege to spammers, fraudsters, digital saboteurs...

Here's something as recent as 7/7/2004 from Reuters, on the USA Today
site:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-07-07-zombie-pimps_x.htm

Andre Moreau