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NETI@home Data Analyzed

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. malicious traffic? by Virtual+Karma · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    malicious traffic? You mean computer virus is not a myth? Duh!