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Unpatched Windows PCs own3d in less than four minutes
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| An unpatched PC is likely to last just four minutes on the internet before
| been attacked and compromised.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/15/unpatched_pc_survival_drops/
4 minutes? How does one even connect to get patched up without getting
compromised first? Maybe that's why *most* Windows PCs will soon be zombies.
Maybe that's why Gates and many others fled the company, making Frankenballmer
the Zombie King.
Related:
How Long Does It Take To Catch A Computer Virus?
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| Would you believe only 8 seconds?
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| In fact, after only 8 seconds, the unsuspecting little rascal was
| undergoing the machine equivalent of being turned into a "Pod
| person from the planet Mars!" First, it was hit by Sasser, one of
| the fastest spreading worms on the Internet. Then it started
| downloading strange programs from mysterious internet addresses.
| Then it started looking for other machines to infect.
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| Within five minutes, the little rapscallion was running so many
| malicious programs that it was running totally choked up and its
| CPU was 100% occupied performing virus-related tasks.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002712&subSection=All+Stories
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