[CS-FSLUG] Unprotected PC running Windows XP can be hijacked in minutes
Fred A. Miller
fmiller at lightlink.com
Wed Dec 1 15:34:26 CST 2004
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.htm
"While most break-in tries fail, an unprotected PC can get hijacked within
minutes of accessing the Internet. Once hijacked, it is likely to get grouped
with other compromised PCs to dispense spam, conduct denial-of-service
attacks or carry out identity-theft scams.
.....
Between Sept. 10 to Sept. 25, online intruders made 305,922 attempts to break
into six computers connected to the Internet via broadband DSL. Attackers
successfully compromised the Dell Windows XP computer using Service Pack 1
nine times, and the Dell Windows 2003 Small Business server once. No other
machines were breached."
Those were break-in attempts, not virus email hijackings, of which the number
of successful attacks against PCs running Windows is too numerous to count.
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These are just some of hundreds of reasons why I run SUSE Linux. Crackers,
Viruses and Trojans don't bother my PC. Did I mention the immoral actions of
MickySoft? 'Should be enough reason for ANYONE to not use it!
Fred
--
"As Internet technology itself vaults into new areas, so too does the
Microsoft monopoly and its tried-and-true bag of tricks."
-US Senator Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah
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