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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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NT4.0 Unpatched... Overnight... No infections. 2004-08-23
Anonymous
As a little experiment of my own a few weeks ago, I put a default install of NT 4.0 on a machine, with just SP2, and left it directly connected to the internet overnight. I even made the Admin password "password". You know what? Not a single infection or access. No changes at all.

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