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Written by fredward on February 4th, 2005I was reading another article today about how windows still sucks. It took this woman four minutes on an unpatched machine before she was flooded with viruses, adware etc
This isn’t as technical as some of the other articles I’ve read but it has made me interested in figuring out how these things work.. and how they spread so fast
They’re fully autonomous which is frightening.. my main question is how they know that a new machine was added so quickly? Spreading from the main NS servers, to your isps down to your computer in minutes.. Wouldn’t it be nice if things we wanted to be that fast actually were?
I think ISPs need to be more active in reducing/eliminating problems like these. The question is, how? I have a cd that has all of the critical updates for 98, 98se and XP (I need to get 2k) on it. If I’m installing an OS for a client I make sure to apply these patches before the computer ever goes online (and lately I’ve put the AVG setup on my USB key with the updated dat file) This allows me to connect the computer to the internet, go to MS and dl the other updates, adaware, spybot etc without running the risk of getting the machine infected
Does anyone know of any articles that show how much of total bandwidth across the internet is just spam, virus etc?
How hard would it be to detect this traffic and stop it at the ISP level?