Question regarding an article from Microsft Hellas's CEO
Rui Miguel Seabra
rms at 1407.org
Thu Feb 5 09:45:35 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 22:17, Niall Douglas wrote:
> IDC will almost certainly be calculating the rate by dividing the
> total number of viruses by the total number of installations,
> reasoning that the more people are using a system then the more
> viruses will be written for it.
I've seen an article debunking this mith almost to a mathematical level,
proving the number of installations has little to do with virus making
and spreading.
Rui
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