Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <200311242043.hAOKhYKL003690 () turing-police cc vt edu>, Valdis.Kletni
eks () vt edu writes:

> Question: What speed access is needed to guarantee "mean time to download
> patches" is significantly less than "mean time to probed by packet-to-0wn"
> (significantly == 20x lower still gives a 5% chance of getting 0wned
> while patching)?

It's not just the download time, it's the install time.  I recently 
upgraded a win2k box to winxp.  Download was very fast -- my office has 
excellent connectivity.  But the patch installation took so long that I 
had to disconnect the Ethernet cable so I could go home. 


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb