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Windows Infected in 12 Minutes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that's-what-I-call-secure dept.

Uber-Review writes "The speed with which PC's can become infected has now shortened. If your Windows computer is not properly protected,it will take 12 minutes before it becomes infected, according to London-based security company, Sophos. They have detected 7,944 new viruses in the first half of 2005, a 59% increase over the same time span last year."

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  1. Nice... by j0nkatz · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Slashdot can apparently be infected with a dupe in as little as 5 days!!!!

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    1. Re:Nice... by m4dm4n · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually thats a well protected and patched uptodate slashdot. Some slashdots can dupe within hours.

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  2. And in a related slashdot story by mindaktiviti · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Windows infected in 12 minutes."

  3. Time Loop by DanielMarkham · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey. I saw this episode on Star Trek. The same thing kept happening over and over again until Data finally kept the ship from blowing up.
    That's what's happening on /. Now we need to repeat all of our original posts, while sending a message with tachyon beams back to our original selves...

    Blog's Up!

    1. Re:Time Loop by Lt+Cmdr+Tuvok · · Score: 5, Funny
      You are quite perceptive. Tachyon beams are exactly what I, myself, have been using, and am indeed using right now, to write messages on this very 'chatboard'.

      Perhaps we are indeed violating the Prime Directive in the most appalling manner by allowing geeks from your time to view 'Star Trek' unabatedly. Your knowledge of events and technology that occur and exist in our time grows ever greater.

      With this in mind, please disregard this comment. It does not exist.

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  4. Only 12 minutes by DS_User · · Score: 5, Funny

    12 minutes hey. Gee I thought IE opened up quicker than that.

  5. Blue screen by digidave · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Windows blue screens in nine minutes, so I'm safe.

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  6. Re:Internet Storm Center is tracking "survival tim by savagedome · · Score: 4, Funny

    A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the Internet is only as good as the slowest Windows members. Excessive going online, as we know, gets Windows machines pwn3d. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest Windows machines first. In this way, continuously going online eliminates the weaker Windows machines, making the Internet a faster and more efficient place.

    Shameless parody of the 'beer is good for you' joke

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  7. Windows is stable! by broothal · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least it's stable. It's exactly the same amount of time as the last time slashdot mentioned this.

  8. Wow, thirty posts about it being a dupe. by cablepokerface · · Score: 5, Funny

    pot. kettle. black.

  9. And in related news..... by Darth_brooks · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can get robbed in a little as three minutes in Downtown Detroit if you walk around counting large stacks of cash.

    The internet is not a nice place. Evolve or die.

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