Fastest Virus Infection Evar

[Thewhistlingwind]

[Snipped XKCD comic]

We were all thinking it. I was very tempted to make such a setup myself, then have it on a second monitor while I'm working, only problem is that I couldn't locate any software to track the infections.........(Yes, that is a plea for someone to make it.)

[ikt]

Just out of curiosity, what is this secret key combo?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../gg491396.aspx

Also just to be picky, technically the malware the op reported is not a virus, there are very few true viruses around today, more often than not they're trojan/rootkit/worm/spyware hybrids.

[Paqman]

I remember a couple of years back The New York Times ran a test which showed that a Windows XP machine connected to the Internet got infected within 5 minutes.. or less time that it would typically take to download the updates that closed the security holes.

I suspect this was done prior to a version of Windows with the firewall enabled by default but I doubt the landscape has changed that much for XP in this respect. There is going to be a window where you are open to attack while updating.

I've actually had that happen on a pre-SP2 machine. I got infected by several nastiest in the time it took to download and install an AV suite.

It just doesn't happen on post-SP2 machines though, Microsoft have improved the security of Windows immensely since those days.