Unprotected PCs can be hijacked in minutes

ukbobboy01 · #1 (**permalink**) December 7th, 2004

Dear LW users

Although the following article does not have anything directly to do with LW, I thought it would be of interest to those amongst us who are security minded.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/hacking/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.htm

UK Bob

PS. Please copy and paste this URL link into your browser, for some reason I can't seem to get it to work from here.

Try 'this' link: Unprotected PCs can be hijacked in minutes. Click HERE!

I don't like the advert that shows up! It's ghostly! How do I get rid of it! lol

ukbobboy01 · #2 (**permalink**) December 7th, 2004

Hi LOTR

Thanks for sorting out the link problem in my previous post.

As for the pop-up advert, I use two pop-up suppressors the first one is part of my NPF 2003 and the other is Yahoo’s pop-up blocker, together they stop 99.99% of all pop-ups and pop-unders.

UK Bob

stief · #3 (**permalink**) December 7th, 2004

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

Quote:

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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