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Message-ID: <4061960E.3050302@normanonline.co.uk> From: luke at normanonline.co.uk (Luke Norman) Subject: When do exploits get used? > I wonder if anyone has actually newly connected to the Internet in the > >last 6 months. Anybody buying a new XP computer that has a network > >connection will be infected by MSBlaster and find their machines almost > >unusable. People on this list would probably know how to disable the > reboot > >for RPCS using the Service manager, but most home users would have no > idea > >how to fix the problem. I wonder how many computers are sitting there > >rebooting every few minutes because of blaster and no one knows what > to do. I ran my laptop online, for a few hours in the evening, on a 56k modem (no firewall) for a week, using unpatched vanilla XP Home. No sign of any virus infection so far - I'm ditching the machine in a week or so, so I was wondering how quickly it would get infected - and, as far as I can tell (AVG), it hasn't been Luke
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