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09-12-03
Why should you always do your updates?
I was doing some reading today on the slammer and blaster worms.
The amazing thing about both these worms is how devilishly fast
they are at infecting new machines. Do you know that within 13 minutes of it's release Slammer
had probed and infected every vulnerable machine on the internet
that was turned on? Because they don't rely on the relatively
slow speed of an email gateway, and people's complicity in opening
emails to spread - these worms travel much faster than any
virus software can reasonably be expected to respond. Furthermore,
they frequently begin running immediately upon infection, and
because the infection and scanning rate is so high, terminating
the process doesn't last long - the machine is reinfected within
minutes if it's still attached to the internet.
This is why we emphasize that the only way to prevent the spread
of such worms is to keep your machine patched to date and to employ
adequate firewall security for your system. So if you are
waiting for the worm before you bother with a firewall or patching
your PC, wait no longer - you NEED to have that box patched now.
If the critical updates world is in your system tray - it's time
to accept and reboot :)
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Lee Drake
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NY 14607 |
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