On Sep 15, 2:26 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> The School of Hacking
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> | If college students can beat the best antivirus programs, why do people spend
> | nearly $5 billion a year on them?
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> http://www.newsweek.com/id/158730
So people (ie Windows users) spend $5 Billion per year on antivirus
software? That should be taken from the top of Microsoft's profits.
Meanwhile, Apple and Linux users spend $0 /year on antivirus software.
Article says,
"A few years ago, security experts tracked about 5,000 new viruses
every year. By the end of this year, they expect to see triple that
number every week, with most designed for identity theft or spam.."
That rate (15,000 new viruses every week) means 750,000 per year. A
while back I heard that there were over 100,000 different types of
malware targeting Windows machines. Sounds like that number must now
be closer to a million. Must mean every programmer in Russia is
writing Windows viruses.
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