On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-03-31 at 08:32 +0100, Will McDonald wrote: > > do you have a firewall enabled? If you *temporarily* disable it, > > does the situation change? > > That's something I'd *never* do outside of a LAN. A temporary firewall > drop is all it takes to compromise you in whatever way the firewall was > protecting you. > > I've mentioned this before, but it only took 13 seconds of being > connected to the internet to watch a friend's PC get compromised in > such a way that a wipe and reinstall was the only fix. His anti-virus > software merely informed him that something had been done, didn't > prevent it, and couldn't change a protected system file to fix it (even > though the malware was able to). And it happened 3 times in a row > because he wouldn't listen to me about firewalling. Sounds like a Windows machine. > Pah! A pox on that so-called protective software! And it was a well- > regarded one, too (at that time). Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
