Make the Decision to Switch to OSX in 12 Minutes

I came across an article about how quickly (12 minutes) a base build of Windows will be attacked when left out on the internet without a firewall, security patches, etc. Recently I brought a directly connected Windows 2000 Virtual Server instance online with just a base build. I ended up walking away from my machine while the build was on the final stage of the install. I came back about an hour later to find that it had already been infected and was in the process of automatically shutting down for the third time thanks to one of the attacks. If you must run Windows make sure you wear protection.

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Thirty Helens Agree » Blog Archive » Zero to Spyware in a Windows Second! says:

December 7, 2005 at 10:55 pm

[...] It is days like today that really makes me appreciate Windows security. I had a machine infected with Spyware in less time than it took to bring the server online and download and install Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 1 off of a DS3 line: [...]