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Yep. This isn't an MS problem. MS exacerbates it with such things as support for raw sockets in WinXP according to Steve Gibson, but the fault lies in the design of the Internet itself; specifically, TCP/IP. It's another case of 80/20 coming back to bite us. The web was fielded witlessly. The problem is the witlessness is feeding on itself and pushing requirements from multiple sources to put enterprises on the web that clearly can't take the risk because they risk the safety of the public. Some industry working groups and big player vendors are going to have face up to this before the bad thing happens. len From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny666@v...] Jacques Distler offered a simple explanation for the phenomenon in general - software monoculture. In the case of most virus problems, the monoculture is essentially that of Microsoft. But the web itself is built on the monoculture of TCP/IP, so the problem runs deeper, so even without the Borg we'd still have to cross this bridge sooner or later. Or rather stop unwanted packets crossing it.
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