You confuse the bug with it's mode of distribution. You confuse true
vulnerability with proper settings (and yes, I agree that default settings
are often improper, but that's just as true--in fact much *more* so--in
Win9x.) You derive large truths from specific instances--always bad form.
You're doing an awful lot of mixing of apples and oranges--and plums and
avocadoes and mangoes and... Best you can hope for is a tasty salad.

All in all you're quite confused and confusing. All in all, you statements
include minimal bits of truth but are largely misleading. Like that MTU
statement--possibly true in some abstractly pure, theoretical sense, but
absolutely meaningless in the real world.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP for Win9x

"Isaac" - wrote in message ...
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in news:Olz5pTDYEHA.1000
@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:

That's a totally false statement.


Oh? You've got worms and worms. Some are spreading itself via mail, like
netsky and mydoom. You can stop these by not opening the attachment, or by
having an up to date virusscanner. Some worms come through open ports,
like
blaster and sasser. You'll just have to switch on your computer and wait.
If you're use W2000 or XP. W98 is immune, because it has not opened these
ports. In '98 Bill was not yet aware of the possibilities of plumbing a
system full of junk needing to open a port, mostly unnessesary, but
skilful
in rare situations, like DCOM or UPnP.

XP is slightly faster because it can dynamically change the MTU size. This
will make networkaccess some more efficient.