An unprotected PC is toast once it is online. We (some friends and i) saw this when we hooked up a laptop to a network of large computerfair.

The last time i saw that many Trojans the Greeks where pouring out of large wooden horse, stabbing the lot of them.

Actually it was so fast that once we plugged the network cable and opened the lid it had already 5 virusreports on its screen. In just 5 minutes time it gathered 55 trojans and some 80 virusses. As experiment it was fun, but i don't want to think what would happen if this was a machine you are working on, this shit is rendering you computer useless within a couple of minutes.

SAVE HEX always, use a good virusscanner, hide behind a firewall, don't download from obscure sources, don't open attachements before testings, etc. etc.

My modem is on 24/7 (cable, 12mbit/1mbit) but the computers are powered down completely when i am not at home, did a complete virus test yesterday, clean. As for my firewall, about 32000 attempts to access my computer in the last 4 weeks. Some of those are legal, but most of them are not.

Robert van der Veeke Basugasubasubasu Basugasubakuhaku Gasubakuhakuhaku!! "Better is the enemy of good enough." Dr. Mikoyan of the Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau.