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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."

14 of 355 comments (clear)

  1. er, dupe by chazman00 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Duped again ! damn you slashdot! ;)

    1. Re:er, dupe by Shalda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I've said it before, but it ain't a dupe until CmdrTaco posts it. That's what made his April fools joke of a few years ago particularly funny. Anyone else duping the same article 12 times in one day would be lame.

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    2. Re:er, dupe by Shads · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Slashdot dupes another story every 12 minutes on average! This strangely coincides with the frequency a windows computer gets "0wn3d" on the "n37" by "3r337 5kr1p7 k1dd13z"... y0 y0. News at 11.

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  2. Er by seymansey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Repost!

  3. The number of days to Dupe an article : 12 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dupe

  4. Slashdot editors are exaggerating by brainnolo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now, ok, some dupes can happen, is normal for a site which updates so often, but really, each week there are lots of dupes. Please editors check the past articles before accepting new ones, at least the recent ones!

  5. Duped again by hvacigar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    try or the Search function

  6. Re:On dupe is annoying, but two... by kesuki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no. I think the record stands at 22. The same story, covered 22 times in a 13 month span, from various news aggregators, blogs etc. I could be wrong though, I don't have 'hard' numbers.

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  7. Irony by tunnie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't it ironic the amount of people calling "dupe"?

  8. Slashdot Story Duped in 12 Minutes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The average time taken for a story on Slashdot to be reposted has dropped to 12 minutes, according to Slashdot researchers at the Get Rid of Open Source softwareS (GROSS) Institute. Slashdot operator Open Source Developers Network (OSDN) dictator Robert "Roblimo" Miller said that the problem is already solved with search functionality and a firewall that is on by default in Slashcode XP Service Pack 2, released last year.

    Roblimo went on to blame the current situation on lazy sysadmins at Slashdot: "If those clowns would just install the new version of Slashcode, and follow the best submission practise of getting out of bed and actually reading the submissions before hitting accept or reject, this problem would be completely solved by now!"

  9. FUCKING DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE DUPES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES. stop fucking duping. its out of control. you dont even give a shit any more. lousy scum editors. fuck you all. slashdot readers are becoming more and more restless with your dupious behavior and will not take it any more.

  10. am I the first one to mention... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that this is a dupe? 80 posts already and nobody noticed yet? /me ducks in cover

  11. Re:Nice... by digidave · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your post is a dupe. All you need to do is read the previous posts before responding and we could avoid this. Maybe some sort of filter on the comment software could scan posts where y% is the same as a previous post and alert the poster to the problem.

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  12. dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/01/021 8209&tid=172&tid=220&tid=218