Re: just a thread...

From: Skorpion (skorpion_at_newsgroups.cetro.nil)
Date: 10/13/04


Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:10:50 -0500


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rusga regaled us with the following:

> Hi NG,
>
> I was just wondering if there's any report (or so) regarding the *number*
> estimate of infected windows machines nowadays?
>
> Sure we all see tons of 1433, 445, 135... port attempts on our firewall
> logs (and know how to count them), sure we all know about the worm
> spreading specialy throught microsoft's technology and targeting *mainly*
> microsoft's products, sure most of us know dshield.org... but the rough
> numbers!? The amount of infected windows machines? Is there any public
> info on this? Is it possible to calculate statistics?
>
> Yours,
> rusga

Not certain you will find that particular statistic here, but you might
begin at:
http://isc.sans.org/

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Skorpion [skorpion at suespammers dot org]
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stupidity."

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