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Slammer infected 90% of vulnerable computers within ten minutes.
A clever worm, says Mr Weaver, would start with a list of 10,000 or so vulnerable computers.
Even if XP's share of the user base sinks to 10%, there will still be over 100m vulnerable computers capable of being enrolled in "botnets".
The research shows that attackers could use patches to automatically generate software to attack vulnerable computers, employing a process that can take as little as 30 seconds.
Such a worm, which Mr Weaver dubs a "Warhol worm" after Andy Warhol's famous aphorism about fame, could infect all those vulnerable computers in about 15 minutes, giving it a huge head start.
That's how ruthlessly effective the army of malicious robots, dispatched by criminals to scour the net for vulnerable computers, has become.Security firms reckon some 2.3m "bots" are currently on the prowl.
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Some officials also fear that standing up to China might trigger disruptive attacks on America's vulnerable computer-controlled infrastructure.
She cited an example where a vulnerable computer was compromised within a minute of being put on the network.
Even more insidiously, the hackers have apparently enlisted unknowing allies in the attacks by invading vulnerable computer systems and using those computers to help carry out the assaults.
Senate Republicans blocked a new measure aimed at protecting America's vulnerable computer networks from attack by, among others, potentially hostile foreign governments.
He blamed developed nations for creating a vulnerable computer technology and said the home-grown virus was something that will "make foreigners look at Filipinos with hidden envy".
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