Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware]

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

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