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[Bill Vermillion]

On Wed, Aug 11 07:17 , Walter Vaughan gie sprachen "Vyizdur zomen 
emororz izaziz zander izorziz", and continued with: 

> I don't know how you can operate a non-patched XP on the
> internet. Every time *I* install XP SP-1 on a fresh hard drive,
> during the time it takes to do the what 20 to 30 critical
> updates, I have gotten trojan horses & virus. If in that window
> I seem to always get crap on my computer, I stand in awe anyone
> operating XP w/o any service pack.

During tests on how long it takes to infect a computer running on
the 'net,  the longest time was about 5 hours, the average was
about an hour and the quickest infection was in about 5 minutes.

That suprised even the testers.   You should be running against at
least a minimal firewall or device which is doing NAT translations
before it would even get near a public reachable IP.

This was a test run by one of the trade mags.  Sorry I can't point
you to which one as I get so much e-new from all of them.


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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com