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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
ALWAYS practice safe computing, not even for a few minutes should you let your guard down.
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Yep. I read somewhere that an unpatched Windows box sitting bare on the Internet gets hacked and zombied in an average of 20 minutes. You should NEVER open ports unless there's an extremely good reason.
We had a similar thing happen at my company a few years back. Turned out my admin had left an old version of sshd on ALL the servers, and they ALL got thoroughly pwned. It was a total nightmare trying to deliver on the custom programming I'd sold that month--all my developer time went into rebuilding boxes, and our SLA was totally shot, which means big refunds for our customers. I didn't get paid that month because of those bastards.
EDIT: My journal entry about it is <a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/journal.php?do=showentry&e=3328">HERE</a>, just so you don't feel too alone.