I downloaded a font the other night and my computer mysteriously shut down and restarted. When it reconnnected to the interweb, I noticed that my DSL modem was working really hard. After about two minutes of this, I checked my online status, and it turns out over 5 million bytes of info were sent out in a matter of minutes. It takes about a day and a half of normal usage to get that much going. Out of fear that some program had restarted my computer only to send all the information I have on my hard drive to some random user, I took myself offline, and went back online. The computer restarted a few more times before I realized that at the opening, windows couldn't find the program that ran the file 'tftp3960'. Curious, I looked up the file extension and found out that there is a security flaw in the system where a computer could possibly "compromise a computer running Microsoft(r) Windows(r) XP and gain control over it." I hope that hasn't happened yet, but I'm currently running the updates from the Microsoft website right now. This could be an XP nightmare. My bank account still has cash on it, so I'm confident that nothing valuable has been pirated. Anyway, after discovering that I am unprotected, I activated my firewalls for the first time ever. I'm not sure how effective this firewall is. It's XP provided and it better keep me from getting my shit and/or identity fucked up.
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