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Re: [News] [Rival] 320,000,000 Windows Zombies and Still Getting Worse

* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:

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> Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up
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>| The number of malware detections has grown by almost half a million since the 
>| end of the year, jumping from 500,000 total detections to 900,000. 
>| 
>| "I have a nasty feeling that the situation is getting worse, not better", 
>| says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for the security vendor. 
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> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147701/malware_spam_and_other_net_pests_rev_up.html

Roy, Roy, Roy, what are we going to do with you?

That 320,000,000 figure cannot be correct.

We all know that 40% of Windows machines are owned.  But 320,000,000 /
0.4 = 800,000,000.

But Microsoft claims that Windows is on over 1 billion (1,000,000,000)
machines.

Somebody's lying here <grin>.

-- 
You know that feeling when you're leaning back on a stool and it starts to tip
over?  Well, that's how I feel all the time.
		-- Steven Wright

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