24 Nov
2003
24 Nov
'03
4:10 p.m.
In message <200311242043.hAOKhYKL003690@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>, Valdis.Kletni eks@vt.edu writes:
Question: What speed access is needed to guarantee "mean time to download patches" is significantly less than "mean time to probed by packet-to-0wn" (significantly == 20x lower still gives a 5% chance of getting 0wned while patching)?
It's not just the download time, it's the install time. I recently upgraded a win2k box to winxp. Download was very fast -- my office has excellent connectivity. But the patch installation took so long that I had to disconnect the Ethernet cable so I could go home. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb