Re: mac trojan in-the-wild

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 11/5/07, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> > On 11/3/07, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Larry Seltzer wrote:
> > > > > > Well, we'd make all Mac users -- who historically have thought they
> > > > did not need to -- install some reliable and up-to-date form of malware
> > > > detecting software, and have that software reliably and uniquely report
> > > > their infected-/affected-ness to a central repository.
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm... What I thought.
> > > >
> > > > Even if it's very successful the numbers will probably be small enough
> > > > that the folks who monitor botnets won't be able to notice them. In the
> > > > Windows world the MSRT and AV companies can give us some sense of
> > > > specific infection rates.
> > >
> > > Not so. We can also count Linux infections and Windows is still larger in
> > > quantity.
> >
> > Do you have the ability to generate % of machines infected per OS?
> > like 20% of windows machines are infected vs only 1% of linux boxen?
>
> Such statistics are never absolute. I can point out trends.


And remember, 47.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot ;-)

Seriously, it would be nice to see % of bots per OS vs % of market
share. I would be glad to crunch teh data if you can supply the
numbers.
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