Re: U.K. town a global contender in bot battle

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

> But the 33,000-person town in northwest part of the country
> reportedly has one of the highest rates of computers infected with
> programs that receive and respond to commands from other remote
> computers.


> According to Symantec's (Profile, Products, Articles) Internet
> Security Threat Report released earlier this month, the small town
> of Winsford had 5 percent of the world's infected computers,

> But why would Winsford -- a town that initially developed because of
> the salt mining industry -- hold rank with London and Seoul, two
> cities with populations many, many times greater than its own?

Completely fabricated statistics?

Even if every Winsforder had one computer (which is rather unlikely),
this puts the total number of bot-infected machines at a meager
660,000.  This number is off by at least one to two orders of
magnitude and underlines that Symantec has no clue what's going on out
there.  Given their pervasive sensor network, this is abit surprising.
OTOH, they are a huge company and mostly do R&D by acquisition, and
this might explain their blind spot.
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