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Imaginedvl on 30 October 2014
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Tamron said:
Imaginedvl said:

Dude... I know it is cool to say something like that but I hope you realize how wrong this is... Stop saying random non-sense stuffs like that to try to prove your point. Maybe you read something like that on a forum or somewhere else but it does not make it real. And I hope you do not really know computers, network and how a virus or malware spread and what weakness is used to "spread" to make that kind of comment. (and even if you read that on a random forum, at least provide source...)

Firstly, she's no dude.

Secondly, perhaps you weren't around in the days of windows XP's phase-out period, but there was this little bugger of a virus called Blaster, which has since spawned thousands of variants.

In 2008 (6 years ago now, nearly 7), the average "time to own" of a fresh install windows XP machine, with no action taken from the user was 4 minutes.
http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2008/07/average-time-to-infection-4-minutes/

"While the survival time measured varies quite a bit across methods used, pretty much all agree that placing an unpatched Windows computer directly onto the Internet in the hope that it downloads the patches faster than it gets exploited are odds that you wouldn't bet on in Vegas. "

These survival times vary from country to country, dependant upon factors such as number of people on the same ISP block running an infected windows XP machine, and on if the router you're using is running it's own firewall or not, but here's an interesting graph for you based on a fresh XP install connected to the internet, from moment of connection and moment of infection, this is for the period spanning he past year only.

And this is even with most ISP's over the past 5 years adding filtering rules specifically intended to stop these viruses and worms, and the average isp provided router including a firewall.

Fact of the matter is simply this, XP is a deathtrap unless you have all of the latest updates on a usb stick to apply, a good software firewall and a good hardware firewall.

Oh.. So if you put this machine in the right environment the average time for this specific virus that existed at this specific time was 4 minutes... 
Can you please, tell me where in that you see that Windows XP will get infected no matter what in 10 seconds while connected to any network like stated by his/her? Because you know, this is the thing, I just replied to this specific non-sense and explained something that is a fact... WINDOWS is everywhere... And yes it has a LOT LOT LOT of virus/malwares because of that. Nobody (I certainly did not) is aguing with that. 

Now if you want to argue, we can argue about the fact that either you think Microsoft is doing crappy softwares with a lot of security holes in it while other OS as super safe and will not get as many virus/malware if there were also sharing 96% of the marketshare. We have a good topic to argue here at least :)