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Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware]
From: bmanning () vacation karoshi com
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:02:31 +0000
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:49:04PM -0600, 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. Thanks, Rob.
true enough. but "auntie jane" doesn't have linux/unix web server(s) or router(s) (other than the one provided by her ISP and managed by them) and has zero clue about overly permissive <service> machines. me thinks it is a -much- larger pool that gets taken advantage of wiht a much higher threshold of ignorance about problems. --bill
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