At home, I put an clean unprotected XP box directly on the cox cable
network. It took me 10-15 minutes to realize I was plugged into the
network. It was infected when I pulled the cable. Perhaps I shouldn't
have been, but I was truly shocked.

Q

On Aug 17, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Todd Walker wrote:

> This is an average of course and varies a lot depending on what network
> your
> machine is attached to.  I'd imagine that direct attachment to a cable
> modem
> would be about the worst possible situation.
>
>
>
> http://isc.sans.org/survivalhistory.php
>
>
J Quyen Arana
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Oklahoma Science Project
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