globetechnology.com— If your Windows computer is not properly protected, chances are it will take all of 12 minutes before it becomes infected, a major security company says.
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Umm.. thats a bunch of bull. Well, I guess if you have an IQ of less than room temperature then maybe it will take you 12 minutes, but honestly, any average computer user will have to try pretty hard to get their computer infected in twelve minutes. lol, I can't even infect my computer with installing windows in 12 minutes.
Windows uses several ports and even behind a Nat has no ethics even with a anti-virus today and if you use IE your SOL and ....yes you can get a virus in min depending on the pipe connecting your setup. IF you think different please place you IP on this POst and watch and learn smart people!
Wow, I read the words "a major security company says" and instantly thought Sophos. I was right. The media has to love that company because of all of the great quotes. I can only imagine if Fox news starts covering them, 2 companies that are built on spin and hype.As far as infection goes, if you install and don't patch any OS that's over 3 years old and doesn't have a firewall you're going to get infected. Fortunately most people don't have to worry about that because they're using a NAT router or their ISP is filtering out a lot of traffic.
when I first moved to my apartment before I bought a router I was plugged directly into my modem... I knew the risks but I didn't really care b/c I was only using my computer for an hour a day if that. This was before SP2 and I don't remember if I had a firewall... but I had antivirus, a fully updated windows xp install and I used firefox. I ran like this for about a month and got one peice of spyware (the peice of spyware I got I didn't notice it till I ran IE one day and it started giving me pop ups)... Which I doubt I would have gotten in sp2 with the firewall or definatly not if I was behind a router...My grandmother has a computer that she plugs directly to her DSL modem and she runs avast, msft anti-spyware, and the sp2 firewall... she also has automatic updates on and she has been running for months w/o any problems.
Closed AccountJul 4, 2005
Umm.. thats a bunch of bull. Well, I guess if you have an IQ of less than room temperature then maybe it will take you 12 minutes, but honestly, any average computer user will have to try pretty hard to get their computer infected in twelve minutes. lol, I can't even infect my computer with installing windows in 12 minutes.
Closed AccountJul 5, 2005
Windows uses several ports and even behind a Nat has no ethics even with a anti-virus today and if you use IE your SOL and ....yes you can get a virus in min depending on the pipe connecting your setup. IF you think different please place you IP on this POst and watch and learn smart people!
lockdownJul 5, 2005
Wow, I read the words "a major security company says" and instantly thought Sophos. I was right. The media has to love that company because of all of the great quotes. I can only imagine if Fox news starts covering them, 2 companies that are built on spin and hype.As far as infection goes, if you install and don't patch any OS that's over 3 years old and doesn't have a firewall you're going to get infected. Fortunately most people don't have to worry about that because they're using a NAT router or their ISP is filtering out a lot of traffic.
hypeivJul 5, 2005
when I first moved to my apartment before I bought a router I was plugged directly into my modem... I knew the risks but I didn't really care b/c I was only using my computer for an hour a day if that. This was before SP2 and I don't remember if I had a firewall... but I had antivirus, a fully updated windows xp install and I used firefox. I ran like this for about a month and got one peice of spyware (the peice of spyware I got I didn't notice it till I ran IE one day and it started giving me pop ups)... Which I doubt I would have gotten in sp2 with the firewall or definatly not if I was behind a router...My grandmother has a computer that she plugs directly to her DSL modem and she runs avast, msft anti-spyware, and the sp2 firewall... she also has automatic updates on and she has been running for months w/o any problems.