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Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes

Posted by michael on from the takes-five-minutes-to-download-patches dept.

Amadaeus writes "According to the latest study by USA Today and Avantgarde, it takes less than 4 minutes for an unpatched Windows XP SP1 system to become part of a botnet. Avantgarde has the statistics in their abstract. Stats of note: Although Macs and PC's got hit with equal opportunity, the XP SP1 machine was hit with 5 LSASS and 4 DCOM exploits while the Mac remained clean. The Linux desktop also was impenetrable, but only was only targeted by 0.26% of all attacks." See also our story on the survival time for unpatched systems.

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Netscape 0.5.6+ post!

  2. First Zombie. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ARG! The patches! They do nothing!

    1. Re:First Zombie. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      humor (noun) 1. wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

      See also: "The goggles! They do nothing!"

    2. Re:First Zombie. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "humor (noun) 1. wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter"

      too bad the original post lacked all that.

      IOW: The original post! It wasn't funny!

  3. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post

  4. Re:First Bot Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I doubt this is the first bot that ever posted, and its not a first post. Go play somewhere else script kiddy

  5. In Korea... by dalleboy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the only zombies are the old people...