Science: throttling computer viruses

[Dave Howe]

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 :)