Re: So ze Q-bomb wuz a dud? :)

["Paul M. Moriarty" <pmm () igtc com>]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:27:59 EDT, Kevin McAleavey said:
> > I haven't seen much of anything and I'm in my 13th hour of sitting  
> > here,
> > waiting for what Marvin the Martian once said, "Where's the Kaboom?  
> > There was
> > supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!"
>
> As I said - oh-dark-thirty sometime in the future.  A metric  
> shitload of the
> 20M compromised systems will probably get patched due to the  
> hysteria. Say 75%.

On the enterprise side, that may be true.  I expect the number that  
got patched as a result of the publicity to be a much smaller  
percentage on the consumer side, say 20%.    And, I'm further willing  
to bet that consumer machines make up at least 75% of the estimated  
20M machines.  So there will still be > 13M compromised boxes post-hype.

- Paul -
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