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Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes
Posted by michael on Tuesday November 30, @15:05
from the takes-five-minutes-to-download-patches dept.

Amadaeus writes "According to the latest study by USA Today and
Avantgarde, it takes less than 4 minutes for an unpatched Windows XP SP1
system to become part of a botnet. Avantgarde has the statistics in
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 survival time for unpatched systems.

http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/11/30/1932245.shtml