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I was using "zone alarm", a free firewall, for the last couple of months.
A couple times I got on this board and started getting hammered with alarms, sometimes 5 a minute. I then got a popup asking me if I wanted my computer to be used as a server (i.e like some file sharing services like nuttella).
Once, I coundn't even access any pages on the site. I got a white screen and a "this computer is not connected to a network" message in the upper left corner.
I got off, scanned with "ad-aware"from lavasoft and found a cookie/trojan from doubleclick and another site. I made a point of not keeping a history of anything and getting off with too many hits, but unfortunatelly I am now getting a few e-mail advertisments.
A few days ago my computer just up and stopped booting:it kept polling the empty A: drive with a message "not a system disk".
You guys might want to use Ad-aware and Zonealarm. In the news recently were reports about a certain asian superpower nation using their computer students to lauch hack-attacks against U.S. military networks to gain info.
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