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Malware Threat Reports Are "Apples and Oranges"

Posted by kdawson on from the calling-a-spade-a-flippin'-shovel dept.

Ant writes "The December malware threat reports are trickling in from vendors — and they all appear to be different. Fortinet, Sunbelt Software, and Kaspersky all published their lists of the most prevalent malware strains for the last month of 2009, but they didn't match up, leading to an admission that users will inevitably be confused by the results. Not only do the various security companies use different names for the threats they identify; they don't even identify the same threats."

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  1. Re:We Win! by boaworm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Close to 60% of all US Windows computers are hosting malware already

    I thought Windows had a market share that was higher than that! But as we know, 76 % of all statistics are made up on-the-fly.

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