Well, have you ever visited a site that customized the cursor?  One of 
Microsoft's current fixes is for a bug where any site can, under the guise 
of customizing the cursor, do anything else it wants to your system.  (If 
past problems are any guide, some people will start hacking legit sites to 
add this "feature"...)

  99% of firewalls won't even try to stop this.  99% of antivirus won't 
begin to look for it until, at best, it tries to write itself to the hard 
drive....

  Yes, there are updates you don't need.  But when Microsoft labels one a 
"Critical Security Update", they're generally pretty accurate in that 
assessment.

David Gillett



On 11 Apr 2007 at 14:18, Richard F. Bolha wrote:

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> Hello:
> 
> Let's say you have a NAT firewall router. Zonealarm Pro software
> firewall. Updated and scanned anitvirus. Several antispyware programs
> some protecting and other scanning. I get good reviews at GRC site.
> Giving this. I do not like applying Windows updates. I have run across
> issues in the past. Am I really unprotected? I rarely find anything on
> any network units. Mostly just spyware junk. I am looking for opinions
> and articles or site's. I know what Microsoft says. 
> 
> Thanks
> Richard F. Bolha 
> 
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