[65360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Mon Nov 24 16:08:13 2003
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:02:29 -0800
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Jeff Shultz" <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
Reply-To: "Jeff Shultz" <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200311242043.hAOKhYKL003690@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
** Reply to message from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on Mon, 24 Nov 2003
15:43:34 -0500
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:24:58 +0200, Petri Helenius said:
>
> > that windowsupdate provided with 10+ critical and 10+ other updates (the=
OS
> > had Service Pack 1 installed)
> >
> > The box should have been labeled "don=B4t connect this device to the
> > public internet".
>
> Question: What speed access is needed to guarantee "mean time to download
> patches" is significantly less than "mean time to probed by packet-to-0wn"
> (significantly =3D=3D 20x lower still gives a 5% chance of getting 0wned w=
hile
> patching)?
I tend to install the freebie Zonealarm before hooking those systems up
to the Internet....
Snake-Oil they may claim, but it does seem to chop the chances of my
getting wormed before getting the updates downloaded.
--
Jeff Shultz
Loose nut behind the wheel.
