Reply From: Liam Colvin <randomat_private> Aw, c'mon, grab a bit of reality here. Users never know, in a very real sense, what is going on behind the scenes with regards to their computers and the Internet. When I ran a large Windows NT network, we often got calls from users saying that we had brought the mainframe down. Excuse me? The chief venue for BO to cause problems is for users to bring it down via an ActiveX control. Users usually don't really look at signatures on ActiveX components, and therefore need to be limited to begin with as to what they allowed to do with their browsers. This is an issue for the LAN and Customer Services admins to look out for as a normal course of business. Use the simple rules of not allowing downloadable components from outside the network, no one logs in as admin on NT boxes, etc., etc. Also, given the nature of today's switched LANs, a machine acting as a server, particularly a Windows 9x machine, would stand out like a store thumb on any hub monitoring tool. Which any LAN admin worth their salt should be looking out for anyway, just from a network health standpoint. BO is again, nothing new. It combines the aspects of a trojan horse with a remote control app. It should be and of course will be filterable from an anti-virus perspective, as it is not really too different from any other virus, except in it's capablities. Not in it's distribution nor it's activation. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Liam Colvin randomat_private "Will work for entertainment..." -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: New Dimensions International [www.newdimensions.net]
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