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Infected In Twenty Minutes
Scott Granneman, 2004-08-19

What normally happens within twenty minutes? That's how long your average unprotected PC running Windows XP, fresh out of the box, will last once it's connected to the Internet.

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I agree with Bub 2004-08-23
Anonymous
...and you forgot the most important thing, which is use RUNAS (similar to SU) and do everything possible from a limited user account. Even a good number of IE exploits can't do anything significant if they're unable to change your system configuration, install DLL's, alter executables and such.
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