Service Pack 2: Your Best Friend
From this Ars Technica article, you’ll find out that windows XP service pack 2 *really* is your friend. Want to get r00ted and p3wned? Connect your unprotected Windows XP SP1 computer to the internet, and wait four minutes.
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Since I install win machines on a regular basis: since blaster and some other buggers, no w2k or xp system has been ’safe’ on da net without a firewall for more then 5 minutes.
I just wonder how long it will take for Linux to suffer the same fate. Just wait for linux desktops to become more popular and they will have the same problem.