CA>> Sure. Once you are 'rooted' the hackers can
CA>> install/modify your system to be anything they
CA>> want it to be.

 MA> So let me get this straight. First they penetrate my
 MA> fire wall then they somehow negotiate my spam filter
 MA> taking control of my computer and wreak havoc on the
 MA> internet.

your fallacy is in thinking that your firewall doesn't have some way of
being broken AND that you seem to expect everything to arrive as spam...
are you aware of the slammer worm? what about code red or nimda? are you
absolutely positive that your browser doesn't have some hole in it that
simply visiting a website might bring something in? are you aware of the
byteverify worm/virus? what about the stuff going around that uses the
jscript.encode javascript method of hiding what it actually does?

hello?

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