Re: Unpatched Windows PCs fall to hackers in under 5 minutes

/Alias** wrote:
See:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9109938&intsrc=hm_list



This is BS Alias from you with the hype.

They found an unprotected machine, because they stuck it out on the Internet without a firewall or firewall/packet either running on the machine or one setting in front of the machine. That's what unproteded and Internet facing means, moron.

The same thing would happen to a Linux machine that was unproteded and facing the Internet, idiot.

And if you comeback and say it would take longer with Linux than Windows, I got a pre-<B-I-T-C-H-S-L-A-P-P-E-D> ready for you.
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