North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected usersspreading malware]
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Rob Thomas wrote: > > Hey, Bill. > > ] wht is the mean-time-to-infection for a stock windows XP system > ] when plugged intot he net?... 2-5minutes? you can't get patches > ] down that fast. > > The same case can be made for Linux and Unix-based web servers with > vulnerable PHP-based tools. There's also a large number of poorly > configured devices such as routers with easily guessed passwords, > overly permissive DNS name servers, etc. > > It's not simply a Windows problem. it's also not just a 'i got infected over the net' problem... where is that sean when you need his nifty stats :) Something about no matter what you filter grandpa-jones will find a way to click on the nekkid jiffs of Anna Kournikova again :( anyway, someone mentioned the rafts of posts in the archives, it'd be nice if this was all just referred there :(
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