[Gllug] Linux has arrived

[Bernard Peek]

On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 23:06 +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 11:18 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> 
> > I recently saw a report that about a third of all machines that had been
> > infected or hacked were fully patched and had up to date anti virus
> > software. That must be about the normal real-world ratio for M$ boxes.
> 
> According to an ex-MS programmer friend of mine (he saw the light a
> while ago), the rate of infection with malware is close to 100%!  The
> only "clean" MS machines are those that have never been connected to the
> outside world.

Althought it may be fashionable to bash Windows it's nothing like that
bad. Estimates of infection rates vary enormously but I haven't seen any
that were even close to 100%. I'd guess that it's something less than 1%
but even that small percentage is a vast number of machines.



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