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MyDoom statistics (was Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack)
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:26:34 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:
Are there any reliable estimates as to the amount of infected hosts out there? Looking at my stats for email sent this week, I am seeing a 70:1 ratio for mydoom.a as compared to Swen.a (the next most prevalent virus). Perhaps if we had some rough #s to work with we could start to approximate the range of traffic volumes we might see.
Reliable? Not really. McAfee's global virus statistics say 17% of all scanned computers were infected by W32/Mydoom.a. But I don't believe that number, because it is wildly different than other metrics. A lot of users have experienced the MyDoom file being on their computer (e.g. through a mail message). But I don't think that represents the number of people which clicked and executed the file, infecting their computer.
Current thread:
- Impending (mydoom) DOS attack bcm (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Chris Behrens (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Leo Bicknell (Jan 30)
- Lack of Info (was Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack) Sean Donelan (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Mike Tancsa (Jan 30)
- MyDoom statistics (was Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack) Sean Donelan (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Donovan Hill (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Leo Bicknell (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Donovan Hill (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Stephen J. Wilcox (Jan 31)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 31)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jan 31)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Leo Bicknell (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 30)
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- Fw: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack james (Jan 30)