No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown

Re:No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown by ntakasaki on Monday June 30, 2014 @09:06PM (#7968660)

Your original statement was:

>Practically every instance of malware runs on Microsoft Windows.

Even according to Google, about 5 million Android devices are infected with malware. http://bgr.com/2014/06/26/google-on-android-malware-and-secu...

I would suppose that your statements aren't support by fact, but the HN downvotes have got me thinking.

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Re:No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown by Arnt on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @05:49AM (#7969839)

Goole said "Well less than 0.5% have ever had a problem", you quote a blog that turns that into "up to five million have ever had malware" which shows some ignorance of statistics, and then you turn that into "about five million are infected with malware now".

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Re:No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown by tripzilch on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @01:01PM (#7971997)

The downvotes are because you're derailing the thread with something that is completely off-topic.

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Re:No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown by moe on Monday June 30, 2014 @09:12PM (#7968673)

If "5 million" sounds like a large number to you then this may help to put it into perspective; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet#Historical_list_of_botne...

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Re:No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown by ntakasaki on Monday June 30, 2014 @10:17PM (#7968857)

First, were you referring to instances of malware, not membership in botnets. Second, we disagree on the meaning of the phrase "practically every".

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Re:No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown by nitrogen on Monday June 30, 2014 @10:43PM (#7968917)

Instances of malware must necessarily be >= sizes of botnets.

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