On 5/21/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That depends greatly on the kind of machine. Someone did a pretty decent study on this. Windows boxes were taken down in minutes and Linux and other Unix's took days to weeks or something like that. Anyone have the pointer on this?
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aslashdot.org+windows+minutes+internet I have a personal experience to add to this. About mid last week I installed Windows on my computer. (Don't hate me, I had to do it.) I clean installed Windows, then installed the driver for my modem, and then got online for the first time (first time with this ISP even). Within 5 minutes I had spam on the infamously on-by-default Windows Messenger. Within 10 minutes I had some program installed on my computer that was trying to phone home to symantec.loves-to-suck-lollipops.com. I had foolishly set the modem to auto-dial when a link is requested, and the thing just kept popping up over and over again. I tried desperately to download AdAware, SpyBotSD, Windows Update, *anything*. I couldn't get anything because the crapware was hogging the connection. Finally I got ZoneAlarm, blocked the connections, and started downloading the other stuff. I still haven't gotten rid of all the crap. Also, Windows Update still doesn't work. It says, "You have a problem" and leaves it at that. No helpful messages. So, I'm running Windows pre-SP2. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
