Quote Originally Posted by oofki
I am sorry but I have been a computer tech for 6 years and I have never seen such a thing happen. I am not sure where you get your information from.
Hmm, either your customers are smart, or you just don't do many jobs.

I've seen in person more than 3 times a machine get basically spanked after a fresh install of XP.

We also did this at my college:

The admins set up a few test machines, unpatched, and didn't put them behind the school's firewall.

I believe the exact time was under 20 minutes before it had an infection.

My cousin a while back bought a new desktop, didn't install updates or have a firewall, and within ONE week, 7 Trojans and 1200 pieces of spyware.

Now he may be a special case because he DID surf the web with it, but the college set up test wasn't.

I'm also a tech, and clean up this crap weekly off people's machines.

So far the record is 98 Trojans + 134 Malware apps + viruses on a laptop the customer used for payroll and taxes.