Re: All these open ports

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>]

Tom Allison wrote:
> More importantly today is to understand how 99.9% of the virus and 
> malware is transmitted today.  It's not through unfiltered ports and 
> such as described in your original email, but through the email 
> mechanism (or http) itself.  And while I don't have any hard numbers at 
> my desk to support the 99.9% claim, I don't believe it to be too far off 
> the mark.

My machine at home receives some kind of port scan on average about 
every three seconds. That's a lot higher rate than it receives spam. Am 
I the 0.1%?

Cheers, Dave