On Wednesday September 22 at 02:36pm Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > 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%? Port scan != virus/malware -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Project 86 - Rebuttal : Safety First Today is Setting Orange, the 46th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/
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