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A Windows computer without the latest security patches is in big trouble.

That's the conclusion from a "honey pot" experiment conducted by StillSecure, a Louisville network security firm.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,...735094,00.html

Over the course of a week, the machines were scanned a total of 46,255 times by computers around the world that crawl the Web looking for vulnerabilities in operating systems.

Once the vulnerabilities were identified, the remote computers launched 4,892 direct attacks with a staggering variety of worms, Trojan Horses, viruses, spyware and other forms of malware

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