Yes, there have been many many security holes in Windows mostly which allows your system to be compromised while you are online on the Internet as in file manipulation and even crashing your computer from remote. What can you do about it ? Check out some of the websites and/or software that I have listed below. There are internet websites which will test your computers security for you while you are online and others which will explain weakness in Windows Networking and Internet Access -
i bought my first computer - a broken Tandy or Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4P - which ran or read maybe 10 to 20 different versions of CP/M (many other brand name proprietary computers ran their own versions of CP/M so CP/M was also a standard but never caught on even though companies and businesses at the time used it), MSDOS, PCDOS, OS/2 and Propiertary TANDY DOS, etc. for all I could tell or tried at the time - - Yes, it was quite a beast - Yes i did meet a Group of Computer Hackers at Iowa State University who introduced me to all of this after i joined the ISU Computer Science Club at the time - - anyway this was a light portable or luggable computer which was broken with a bad communications - Uart chip - in a card on the main board called a dialup modem - 300 to 2400 baud or bps - which i repaired with a soldering iron and electronic schematics (Just From my High School Analog and Digital Electronics education - US Military book called GROBE) anyway back in my first year and first college - ISU - IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY in Ames, Iowa Home of the first Electronic Digital Computer as well - The Atanasoff Berry Computer - called the ABC Computer by John Vincent Atanasoff known as the father of the computer. but it didn't make the world news because it was over shadowed by a news event at that time otherwise it might have been famous and well known (Instead of attending University of California at Berkeley or UC Berkeley - where i was also accepted for admissions) That summer i also worked on campus at The Famous Government Department of Energy facility onsite - AMES LABORATORY - as my first real job straight from High School - as a Computer Programmer in Fortran and C - 1984 - 1985.
i used that same computer until mid to late 1990's and Pre-2000 - a computing marvel - got me partially thru college as a student with no money before i built my first IBM PC Compatible desktop or fliptop. Without those computers none of this would have been possible because i used it to surf - COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS - BBS systems - which were personal public personal computers you could setup and allow logon running the BBS software just like independent businesses or Internet. From there you would connect to USENET, and BITNET, Companies and other public sites at the time before the standard internet came about with websites as such. later all of these BBSes were linked and networked together to form what we now know as the modern internet.
Windows Internet security links
Gibson Research - www.GRC.com (Will Test your systems security Online - SHIELD - in addition GRC offers HARDDRIVE REPAIR SOFTWARE called - SPINRITE - which has been around for years and is still available for your old harddrive or new harddrive if you don't want to throw it out just because it has bad - "SECTORS" - which i used to use all the time because it was "AFFORDABLE" and could recertify old or broken harddrives. The harddrive has clicks or crashes when it gets to a bad sector - sometimes causing Windows BSOD - blue screen of death - and you just can't seem to fix it, this is sometimes the cure when CHKDSK doesn't work. So starting out in computers i couldn't afford much so - SPINRITE - gave me a way out if i wanted to keep that old harddrive of mine spinning and didn't have money to replace it.
Zonelabs - Zonealarm - www.Zonelabs.com (Personal firewall software with free versions) One of the very best and first at that time till today as well as easiest to configure and use.
Black ICE Defender - (Another personal firewall software but not free) Which was still available at that time.
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