On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Rob Thomas wrote:
Hey, Bill.
] wht is the mean-time-to-infection for a stock windows XP system ] when plugged intot he net?... 2-5minutes? you can't get patches ] down that fast.
The same case can be made for Linux and Unix-based web servers with vulnerable PHP-based tools. There's also a large number of poorly configured devices such as routers with easily guessed passwords, overly permissive DNS name servers, etc.
It's not simply a Windows problem.
it's also not just a 'i got infected over the net' problem... where is that sean when you need his nifty stats :) Something about no matter what you filter grandpa-jones will find a way to click on the nekkid jiffs of Anna Kournikova again :( anyway, someone mentioned the rafts of posts in the archives, it'd be nice if this was all just referred there :(