This was too good to resist:

From the Nov. 17, 2005 issue of Eweek.

The article is about a Windows Flaw, Exploit that MS just confirmed...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1888592,00.asp

Workarounds:

To help protect against anonymous network-based connection attempts to exploit the flaw, Microsoft suggests that users configure the RestrictAnonymous registry setting to a more restrictive setting.

Additionally, users can block UDP ports 135, 137, 138, and 445, and TCP ports 135, 139, 445, and 593. All unsolicited inbound traffic on ports greater than 1024 and any other specifically configured RPC port should be blocked.

If installed, COM Internet Services (CIS) or RPC over HTTP, which listen on ports 80 and 443 should also be blocked to avoid a potential attack.

Yeah..........right. I think I'll just stick to Linux.

I'll pass this along to my wife Connie and see how well she does implementing this. Ha Ha.

If Windows continues to evolve like this Billy will have to create a new motto:

As User Friendly As It Is Secure
sakiZ