Windows Infected in 12 Minutes

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."

Comments

Re:Holy Dupes, Batperson!

[2$ Crack Whore]

Yes, once again its another dupe - why is everyone still so surprised that this happens? The 'editors' barely pay lip service to their title and I doubt very much that they read the comments either. At face value there is no real passion from the creators of the site - its just the same old shit day after day.

To explain further, Slashdot exists for one purpose: to make money for parent company OSDN. There is nothing wrong with that in itself but don't expect a high quality site the way its currently run. The Slashdot business model (if you can call it that) seems to be to provoke reaction from the loyal crowd of slashbots that frequent the site. Inflammatory / trollish stories (e.g here) and dupes cause the page hits (and therefore ad revenue) to go through the roof.

As a result, most of the comments I see on the stories are neither insightful, interesting or informative. There seems to be no real balanced discussion - something I feel is a product of the moderation system which rewards those who conform to the slashbot mindset and censors everything else. This democratic method of editing the comments is terrible - especially where technical issues are concerned, as a lot of nonsense is modded up by people who don't know otherwise.

You are probably wondering why I read Slashdot. Partly morbid curiosity and partly to laugh at both the flame wars which invevitably break out and the well crafted trolls.

To conclude, Slashdot is neither really "News for Nerds" nor is it "Stuff that matters". If you want the former, go to somewhere like arstechnica or kuroshin and if you want actual stuff that matters, the BBC are hard to beat.

wow, misread

[valkr1e]

I read the headline as "Windows installed in 12 minutes" and hurredly clicked the link to see how I could save hours out of a work week and weeks out of a year. Alas, I read it again and see not only 1:it's a dupe, but 2: it's not news, this has been the case for years

Irony in trashing the editors

[ChrisF79]

Anybody else find it funny that so many people replied to tell us that the story had already been posted on slashdot before, yet their comment is a repeat of 50 other replies above it?

You could cut the irony with a spoon.

Re:not always enough - hardware firewalls are bett

[Mr_Silver]

I seem to recall some cases of software firewalls (if this is what you meant) which don't initiate before the NIC driver comes online, meaning the PC has a few seconds where it can acquire an IP and receive packets before protection commences.

This, I believe, was a problem fixed in service pack 2. Windows now waits until all applications (which should include the software firewall) have started up before the NIC driver comes online.