On 21 March 2010 23:10, <john.herb...@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! -- Regards, James ;)
