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NETI@home Data Analyzed

Posted by timothy on from the sharpen-your-knives dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NETI@home Internet traffic statistics project (featured in Wired and Slashdot previously) has a quick analysis on the malicious traffic they observed. It's a rough world out there." Perhaps not suprising, but still disheartening, the researchers find among other things that a large portion of typical end-user traffic consists of malicious connection attempts.

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  1. But did they find intelligent life? by miracle69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's what we need to know.

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    1. Re:But did they find intelligent life? by eobanb · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, they found people with a bunch of Windows Services on and all their ports open. Does that answer your question?

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  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeti@home has yet to yield conclusive results.