Survival Time For Windows Systems Cut In Half!

From /.:

"The Internet Storm Center published a graph showing historic trends for the "Survival Time" of unpatched, unprotected (windows) computers connected to the internet. Turns out, this number dropped from about 40 minutes last year, to 20 minutes this year. The survival time is calculated as the average time between reports for an average target IP address. 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 data is collected from a large number of networks with different types of upstream protection. So if you are on an unprotected cable/DSL line, you may see probes much more frequently. Either way, 20 minutes is not long enough to download patches. The Honeynet Project did publish a paper with some stats back in 2001."

Graph Here

Pretty crazy eh? I hope I that I wont have to reformat in the near future...but I do have a very stealthy internet set up (all ports stealthed, no response) so it looks like no computer exists at my IP.

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Test your connection.

#203441

Hmm, I must be lucky. No anti-virus, no firewall and never used Windows Update with a non-Integrated XP OS (I mean, not ones that were later sold with SP1). But only one attack, because my Dad downloaded something from a Pop-Up window.

#203455

Wow...how does your shields up test look?

#203456

Hmm, I got "may be offering some or all of your computer's data to the entire world at this very moment!"

Bring it...

#203484

I mean common ports...ahh never mind

I get all stealth on all ports. Boo ya!

#203567

Originally posted by wizard@Aug 17 2004, 01:35 PM
Hmm, I got "may be offering some or all of your computer's data to the entire world at this very moment!"

Same...

I guess my firewall and router aren't doing me much good, eh? :blink:

edit: For what it's worth (if anything o_O ), I have various ports (in teh r00ter) open for this stuff to work: IRC downloads, AIM and MSN with Miranda IM, and BitTorrent.

#203579

I have all stealth except 113 (IDENT). I tried to block it on my router, but it still showed up as "closed". >.

#203705

thnx for that link man!

phew! ALL ports on my lan are stealthed the only thing that showed that there was even a comp here was the ping test.

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