[ILUG] Naive ADSL/WiFi questions (long (sorry!))?

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> late 2005).  I did indeed manage to get the tool started.  Shortly 
> afterward, the laptop randomly rebooted.  Huh?  Of course, I hadn't 
> been patching it so it almost immediately fell victim to a worm. 
> I don't regard this as being Microsoft's fault either.

It takes at least ten minutes, if not a lot longer, to update a fresh 
XP install.

Judging by the iptables logs of dropped packets which I used to 
gather /years/ ago (i stopped bothering, there was too much crud), 
you're pretty certain to be infected within a minute of connecting to 
the internet.

I.e. there's no way to avoid an XP box getting infected, if it isn't 
firewalled.

If that isn't Microsofts' fault...

regards,
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