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<blockquote data-quote="ebocious" data-source="post: 835736" data-attributes="member: 75834"><p>Not sure. In fact, I have to go back on that, because I'm pretty sure I was the only one with Comcast. My friend in Turlock had Charter (I think), and probably the guy in Modesto as well. I know top-level DNS servers have been compromised before, but I don't know if it was DNS. I caught a glimpse of it on the news, and these two friends kept calling me (and they were reloading Windows the long way, with the recovery partition). And it was the same two names that kept coming up: SQL Slammer and Stack Bot.</p><p></p><p>What I can say is that I didn't even have the chance to open a browser before it happened. I don't remember if I had any instant messengers or anything like that running at startup, but I don't think I did. When I do use them (which is almost never these days), they're all portable versions.</p><p></p><p>A few things I will mention: all top-level DNS servers today use Anycast. We were running Windows XP back then. And McAfee was weaker then (it's still not the best, and I don't know that it ever will be). I believe it was in November (a month later) when McAfee went from <a href="https://www.efficientlearning.com/cpa/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2014/12/mcafee_1.gif" target="_blank">this</a> to <a href="https://images.pcworld.com/reviews/graphics/127625-McAfee-Settings_b.jpg" target="_blank">this</a>. They added some script blockers and other IPS stuffs, and it was way heavier on the system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ebocious, post: 835736, member: 75834"] Not sure. In fact, I have to go back on that, because I'm pretty sure I was the only one with Comcast. My friend in Turlock had Charter (I think), and probably the guy in Modesto as well. I know top-level DNS servers have been compromised before, but I don't know if it was DNS. I caught a glimpse of it on the news, and these two friends kept calling me (and they were reloading Windows the long way, with the recovery partition). And it was the same two names that kept coming up: SQL Slammer and Stack Bot. What I can say is that I didn't even have the chance to open a browser before it happened. I don't remember if I had any instant messengers or anything like that running at startup, but I don't think I did. When I do use them (which is almost never these days), they're all portable versions. A few things I will mention: all top-level DNS servers today use Anycast. We were running Windows XP back then. And McAfee was weaker then (it's still not the best, and I don't know that it ever will be). I believe it was in November (a month later) when McAfee went from [URL='https://www.efficientlearning.com/cpa/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2014/12/mcafee_1.gif']this[/URL] to [URL='https://images.pcworld.com/reviews/graphics/127625-McAfee-Settings_b.jpg']this[/URL]. They added some script blockers and other IPS stuffs, and it was way heavier on the system. [/QUOTE]
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