Friday, July 1. 2005
XP MTI and door gunners
Sophos is reporting that the Mean Time to Infection for a newly-installed Windows XP computer on the Internet is now 12 minutes - down from 30 minutes last year.
That's impressive. It reminds me of the old stories about helicopter door gunners in Vietnam - the life expectancy was 20 seconds in a LZ firefight.
Hmmm....the Internet as a hot LZ. Need to look into that for my user presentations.
Also, Enterprise PCs now have more sick days due to infection than their users. And, of course, no computer virus worth it's salt will bring a computer down when the user is actually out sick anyway, effectively more than doubling the cost of employee downtime to business.
Let's be careful out there!
That's impressive. It reminds me of the old stories about helicopter door gunners in Vietnam - the life expectancy was 20 seconds in a LZ firefight.
Hmmm....the Internet as a hot LZ. Need to look into that for my user presentations.
Also, Enterprise PCs now have more sick days due to infection than their users. And, of course, no computer virus worth it's salt will bring a computer down when the user is actually out sick anyway, effectively more than doubling the cost of employee downtime to business.
Let's be careful out there!
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