Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/30/1932245 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-30 20:05:00 from the takes-five-minutes-to-download-patches dept. [1]Amadaeus writes "According to the latest study by USA Today and [2]Avantgarde, it takes less than [3]4 minutes for an unpatched Windows XP SP1 system to become part of a botnet. Avantgarde has the statistics in [4]their abstract. Stats of note: Although Macs and PC's got hit with equal opportunity, the XP SP1 machine was hit with 5 LSASS and 4 DCOM exploits while the Mac remained clean. The Linux desktop also was impenetrable, but only was only targeted by 0.26% of all attacks." See also our story on the [5]survival time for unpatched systems. [6]Click Here References 1. mailto:raymondlai@gmail.com 2. http://www.avantgarde.com/ 3. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.ht... 4. http://avantgarde.com/ttlnabstract113004.pdf 5. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/17/1347214&tid=172 6. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5671&alloc_id=12342&site_id=1&request_id=4452725&o p=click&page=%2farticle%2epl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]