Travel Technology - Be careful - the worm got me in less than 1 hour!

Hard Drive failed a diagnostic on Friday. New one arrived yesterday.

OK - time for a clean install. Line up the boxes. Started with W2K, then SP4, then Norton Antivirus, then Sygate firewall.

But before I installed the firewall, Norton Antivirus comes up with the dreaded "Virus Detected" - the Welchia Worm (http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.welchia.worm.html).

It took less than 1 hour to find an open port on my DSL connection. It cleaned up OK, but an amazing lesson about internet security learned...

Wow.

Always a good thing to try to install as much as possible (including NAV and firewall software) while disconnected from the network. Microsoft also provides all of their software updates as downloadable files (difficult to find, though), so you can borrow someone else's computer and burn all of the files onto CD and install on your computer.

Have you also thought about buying a hardware router for your DSL connection? They can be had for as little as $40 in the US.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by pseudoswede:
Have you also thought about buying a hardware router for your DSL connection? They can be had for as little as $40 in the US.</font>

Now I have! http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/smile.gif

I'll also add that when I first got my cable modem, I was being lazy and didn't want to go to Best Buy that evening to buy firewall software. Within 4 hours, my computer got hacked. I immediately shut off my computer and drove like a demon to Best Buy. http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/smile.gif