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75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers
Trailwalker writes "An article at BigBlueBall.com states that 75% of web connections do not use a browser. IM and P2P applications are used instead." While surprising, this is probably more indicative of how instant messaging has been able to complement and/or replace email in recent times.
Scanning for traffic for worm-infected customers is one of the things I do at the ISP I work at, and I can tell you, it is often NOT as simple as telling them to clean it up. Half the time, the customer doesn't believe us, as if we'd bother to make something like this up, just to annoy them. When they actually do look, much of the time, they claim to find nothing, or to have "fixed it", but we still see the worm traffic. And of course there are those wonderful customers who shut the infected machine down for the day, claim to have "fixed it" and then turn it back on again the next day... And, to top it off, one out of every three of the ones that actually DO resolve it end up getting reinfected days later, because they didn't bother to do all the patches after removing the infection (despite explicit suggestions to do just that on our part). It's a fun job, let me tell ya...