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
