On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Joey Kelly wrote:

> One of the DoS events was caused by a brand-new Sony VAIO that I personally 
> unpacked out of its shipping carton and plugged into the network myself. 
> While theoretically possible (it's happened a few times before during the 
> last few decades), I doubt that the thing shipped with a worm.

Mean time between plugging in an unpatched XP box on the Internet, and
getting infected with a worm is about 4 minutes.

ray

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