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The Prevalence Of Threats: How Popular Is The Malware That Infected Your System?

http://blog.immunet.com/blog/2010/10/26/the-prevalence-of-threats-how-popular-is-the-malware-that-in.html

In my last blog post, I talked about the infection rates of Immunet users (namely looking at how many threats we blocked on different machines). In this post, I’d like to dive into how frequently a piece of malware might show up on a given system.
( 1 comment | 3 points | on HN )
Re:The Prevalence Of Threats: How Popular Is The Malware Tha... by bediger on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @12:57PM (#1839421)
Right around half of "all threats" are only found on one machine. I'm assuming that's one Windows machine. What's the point of a signature-based detector again?

Also, I'd like to see the same kind of figures for Linux.