having re-read the article the writer's anti Microsoft bias shines through ...
namely ...
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The only company that seems to be in a position to fix the Master Boot Record problem is Microsoft.
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(You'd think that Microsoft would've figured out a way to protect the MBR by now — but you'd be wrong.)
And then Microsoft's total lack of action
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Vista SP1 blocks the simplest MBR access
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Windows XP remains its primary target, because Vista's boot method is different and its User Account Control regime gets in the worm's way.
Microsoft has acted to secure their operating system, you can't re-engineer XP to work as it should have ... so you replace it.
this trojan is nasty, no doubt about that, but I think that MS and the AV companies do what they can ...
The confusing bit for me is
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Your firewall won't help: Sinowal/Mebroot bypasses Windows' normal communication routines, so it works outside your computer's firewall.
As far as I know if the ingoing / outgoing ports are blocked by the firewall and all activity on the open ports is monitored and controlled - how do you bypass the firewall?
