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Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware]
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:06:57 +0200
bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:49:04PM -0600, Rob Thomas wrote:Hey, Bill. ] wht is the mean-time-to-infection for a stock windows XP system ] when plugged intot he net?... 2-5minutes? you can't get patches ] down that fast. The same case can be made for Linux and Unix-based web servers with vulnerable PHP-based tools. There's also a large number of poorly configured devices such as routers with easily guessed passwords, overly permissive DNS name servers, etc. It's not simply a Windows problem. Thanks, Rob.true enough. but "auntie jane" doesn't have linux/unix web server(s) or router(s) (other than the one provided by her ISP and managed by them) and has zero clue about overly permissive <service> machines. me thinks it is a -much- larger pool that gets taken advantage ofwiht a much higher threshold of ignorance about problems.--bill
You described it best, and home users are indeed the problem discussed.However, the amount of insecure routers out there is scary by itself. Rob has a lot more data on that than me and I don't doubt what he said.
-- http://blogs.securiteam.com/ "Out of the box is where I live". -- Cara "Starbuck" Thrace, Battlestar Galactica.
Current thread:
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware], (continued)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] Gadi Evron (Feb 20)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 20)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] Simon Waters (Feb 21)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] Gadi Evron (Feb 21)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] Jess Kitchen (Feb 21)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] Gadi Evron (Feb 21)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] bmanning (Feb 20)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] Rob Thomas (Feb 20)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] bmanning (Feb 20)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] Rob Thomas (Feb 20)
- Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware] Gadi Evron (Feb 20)
- botnets for good? [was: and here are some answers] Gadi Evron (Feb 20)
- RE: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Bill Nash (Feb 20)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Jason Frisvold (Feb 20)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Randy Bush (Feb 20)