__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Thursday 21 September 2006 03:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:17:11 +0100
> <7339090.E1hcz5a9dp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Over 50% of corporate desktops infected with malware: IronPort
>>
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>> | The report also reveals that more than 50% of corporate desktops
>> | worldwide are infected with some type of spyware with the rate of
>> | infection as high as 70% in the United States. Trojans or malicious
>> | system monitors represented over 7% of the infections. Rootkits and
>> | trick loaders, which reinstall spyware and other obfuscation techniques,
>> | make remediation very difficult thus prevention is the key to stopping
>> | these threats.
>> `----
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>> http://www.crn-india.com/breakingnews/stories/66870.html
>>
>> But Microsoft, much like our resident Winvocates and apologists, says that
>> only 2% of the Windows PC's out there are found to have malware, according
>> to some tools. Speaking of lies and bias, Microsoft also claimed a failure
>> rate of 5% for the XBox 360. EA put the bar at 30-50%, based on a sample
>> of ~500.
>
> One wonders if there are similar errors in the claims from resident
> Wintroolies that Linux has 2% of the desktops. :-) Given that logic,
> Linux may very well have 16-20%.
>
> Of course dual-boots ("duel-boots", as some put it) complicate things.
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| Currently, only 16 percent of PC users in the United States have Linux,
| and although that percentage pleases Szmajda and Joe Monti, the club's
| other co-president, those numbers seem woefully small for an operating
| system that is virtually hassle-proof.
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