[88822] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Feb 20 21:12:53 2006
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:12:07 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0602201946260.20788@qentba.nf23028.arg>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Rob Thomas wrote:
>
> Hey, Bill.
>
> ] wht is the mean-time-to-infection for a stock windows XP system
> ] when plugged intot he net?... 2-5minutes? you can't get patches
> ] down that fast.
>
> The same case can be made for Linux and Unix-based web servers with
> vulnerable PHP-based tools. There's also a large number of poorly
> configured devices such as routers with easily guessed passwords,
> overly permissive DNS name servers, etc.
>
> It's not simply a Windows problem.
it's also not just a 'i got infected over the net' problem... where is
that sean when you need his nifty stats :) Something about no matter what
you filter grandpa-jones will find a way to click on the nekkid jiffs of
Anna Kournikova again :(
anyway, someone mentioned the rafts of posts in the archives, it'd be nice
if this was all just referred there :(
