Need advice: General question about MS-Windows and trojans

[email]anon1@sci.sci[/email] wrote in news:e661e$4543dfb1$c690c02a$24432@TSOFT.COM:
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> If I were to purchase a brand new computer, with the latest version of
> MicroSoft Windows NT Professional, and all the usual software that
> goes with it (InterNet Explorer, Outlook Express, Active-X, J2EE,
> VB.NET, etc.), and I don't make any changes from the default
> configuration, except to enable JavaScript and Active-X and TCP/IP or
> PPP and connect the system to the InterNet via ComCast digital cable
> or high-speed DSL, is there any way that somebody elsewhere on the net
> could, without my authorization, penetrate my computer via some sort
> of worm/virus/trojan and thereby gain sufficient control over my
> computer as to make it send out unauthorized e-mail including copies
> of the worm/virus/trojan?
>
> (I'm sorry for the run-on sentence, but I couldn't find any good place
> to break it.)
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It depends if you have the holes fixed in things like media player or
IE. That's why they have critical updates. Of course a *new* hole could
appear also. Beware of wmv files BTW, they can take you to a web site
and start IE automatically, and if you have Java enabled along with
active scripting, *anything* could be run.

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