[65361] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Nov 24 16:12:25 2003
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:43:34 EST."
<200311242043.hAOKhYKL003690@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:10:15 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <200311242043.hAOKhYKL003690@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>, Valdis.Kletni
eks@vt.edu writes:
>
>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 == 20x lower still gives a 5% chance of getting 0wned
>while patching)?
>
It's not just the download time, it's the install time. I recently
upgraded a win2k box to winxp. Download was very fast -- my office has
excellent connectivity. But the patch installation took so long that I
had to disconnect the Ethernet cable so I could go home.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
