Unprotected PCs Fall To Hacker Bots In Just Four Minutes

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http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/54201306

By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb.com
November 30, 2004

The lifespan of a poorly protected PC connected to the Internet is a
mere four minutes, research released Tuesday claimed. After that, it's
owned by a hacker.

In the two-week test, marketing-communications firm AvanteGarde
deployed half a dozen systems in "honeypot" style, using default
security settings. It then analyzed the machines' performance by
tallying the attacks, counting the number of compromises, and timing
how long it took an attack to successfully hijack a computer once it
was connected to the Internet.

The six machines were equipped with Microsoft Windows Small Business
Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft
Windows XP SP1 with the free ZoneAlarm personal firewall, Microsoft
Windows XP SP2, Macintosh OS X 10.3.5, and Linspire's distribution of
Linux.

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