{"id":6564,"date":"2004-08-18T07:14:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T14:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/18\/in-the-time-of-the-plague.html"},"modified":"2004-08-18T07:14:05","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T14:14:05","slug":"in_the_time_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/in_the_time_of.html","title":{"rendered":"In the Time of the Plague …"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unprotect PC, connected to the Internet (capitalized or not) will be infected by something within twenty minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the researchers, an unpatched Windows PC connected to the Internet will last for only about 20 minutes before it’s compromised by malware, on average. That figure is down from around 40 minutes, the group’s estimate in 2003.
\nThe Internet Storm Center, which is part of the SANS Institute, calculated the 20-minute “survival time” by listening on vacant Internet Protocol addresses and timing the frequency of reports received there.
\n“If you are assuming that most of these reports are generated by worms that attempt to propagate, an unpatched system would be infected by such a probe,” the center, which provides research and education on security issues, said in a statement.
\nThe drop from 40 minutes to 20 minutes is worrisome because it means the average “survival time” is not long enough for a user to download the very patches that would protect a PC from Internet threats.<\/p>\n

I liked this quote, though:<\/p>\n

“If the human body did patch management the way (companies do), we’d all be dead.”<\/p>\n

(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An unprotect PC, connected to the Internet (capitalized or not) will be infected by something within twenty minutes. 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