Re: NSP-SEC

[James Bensley <jwbensley () gmail com>]

On 21 March 2010 23:10,  <John.Herbert () usc-bt com> wrote:
> Hey James,m
>
> Well, I'm sure that the 140,000,000 is a FUD figure extrapolated by an AV vendor rather than an actual audit (:-), 
> but you make a fair point.
>
> That said, I did start wondering how an "Internet User" is defined in the stats you pointed to. Assuming that 
> Internet User means an Internet connection (?), do we assume that there is only one bot per computer (bearing in mind 
> that if you're susceptible to one, there's a good chance you have succumbed to more than one); or that there's only 
> one computer per user (progressively less common in a domestic setting, and see the previous point again also); and 
> we are probably ignoring the possibility of bots in commercial environments (bots couldn' t possibly penetrate the 
> workplace, right?). All of the above I'd wager could skew the statistics to something more reasonable.
>
> In conclusion: blah blah blah statistics. Can't win :)
>
> Have a good weekend :)
>
> j.

Yes and what about virtual machines, servers, data centers? There are
going to be (obviously) far more machines online than there are people
so I guess the figure can be greatly skewed but I can see from other
peoples posts that it could also be accurate.

Scary!

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Regards,
James ;)