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Unprotected PCs can be hijacked in minutes

Open Discussion topics Discuss the time of day, whatever you want to. This is the hangout area. If you have LimeWire problems, post them here too.

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December 7th, 2004

stief

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Slashdot has a discussion of the results, see http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/30/1932245

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Stats of note: Although Macs and PC's got hit with equal opportunity, the XP SP1 machine was hit with 5 LSASS and 4 DCOM exploits while the Mac remained clean. The Linux desktop also was impenetrable, but only was only targeted by 0.26% of all attacks.

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