[Leaplist] A letter to my Windows friends...

[Austin Denyer (Ozz)]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:06:16 -0500, Fred Moore <fred at fmeco.com> wrote:
>
> Ray I contend this has absolutely nothing to do with the end user..  When the 
> average life expectancy of a new unpatched windows box sitting on the net is 
> less than 30 minutes...   this is without an user running it..   It has been 
> tested..man times..  Don't make an assumption that the average user knows how 
> to patch windows.. The security model is just broke.   And because the 
> registry has to be R/W by design I find it unlikely it will ever be fixed..   

Actually, the average life expectancy of a new, unpatched Windoze box
on the net is 5-10 mins.

To be fair, the average life expectancy of a new, unpatched,
default-config Linux box on the net is around 30 mins, assuming
installation from CD/DVD (as opposed to a Net Install, which would by
it's very nature patch an install).

Regards,
Ozz.
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