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- Keep your system patched. http:\\windowsupdate.microsoft.com
- If you're more technically inclined or at a business, get some kind of SMTP
proxy with spam filtering. I use a WatchGuard firewall with an SMTP proxy at my
office and an outsourced anti-spam service (Frontbridge). However, we resell
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customers LOVE it.
While I realize these worms and such are annoying. There are plenty of easy
ways to stop them when you apply common sense and good old logic.
/!\ NOTICE: Bitching, whining, complaining, throwing a tantrum, blaming India,
dreaming up conspiracies, spreading FUD, annoying the list owner, and demanding
the universe switch to Linux have all been proven to be completely ineffective
at stopping worms, viruses, and hackers. /!\
Andrew Plato
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