Re: Science: throttling computer viruses

Eric Cordian wrote:

I have a dual boot system which normally runs Linux. Since it had been a couple of months since I last ran XP, I booted it on Tuesday to run Windows Update, and keep it current with critical patches. Within minutes, before I had even downloaded the first update, my box ground to a nearly screeching halt from Sasser, and some other piece of malware which was trying to make thousands of connections to random IPs on port 5000. Personally, I would have downloaded the patches under linux, rebooted offline, installed them and *then* ran the update. but that's just me :)