
380 Chapter 8 9 XSS Worms
In reality, a true Warhol worm that attempted to exploit all available
resources within 15 minutes is unrealistic given several factors, including the
amount of bandwidth on the Internet and more importantly, that many
machines are only turned on for a certain percentage of the day. A typical
rule of thumb
is
to follow the sun model. In this case, exploitation of all
available resources is going to be tied to the amount of time it takes for the
majority of all computers to connect to the Internet, which works out to be
around 20 to 24 hours. Incidentally, this is almost ...