I didn't believe this article before But after just a few minutes on the net with my new system,,,,POW A MUST READ ARTICLEIt’s a jungle out there, folks.
The Internet Storm Center reports the survival time for an unpatched system connected to the Internet today as 16 minutes. The survivaltime is calculated as the average time between reports for an average target IP address. If you are assuming that most of these reports are generated by worms that attempt to propagate, an unpatched system would be infected by such a probe. Do you have enough time to…
XP Survival Time on the Net -- 16 Minutes