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"Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
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"Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
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Cisco: Unique malware multiplying in 2011 (Full August 2, 2011 Digital Trends Article)

That is just so fucked up! Angry
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RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
Ha. Those are just the ones that are easy to detect. The Zeus botnet alone is thought to contain over 3.5 million PCs worldwide.

You all can thank a combination of Microsoft & people that just don't care about things until they directly affect them for this mess.
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RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
(August 3, 2011 at 12:04 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: You all can thank a combination of Microsoft & people that just don't care about things until they directly affect them for this mess.

Microsoft is responsible for the spread of malware how? I would blame, for example, the people writing it and the other people paying for its services.
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RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
"...of which 299,999 were confirmed to be Cisco's unique malware. The reamining instance of unique malware being attributed to one Janet Billings, a lonely federal employee from Columbus Ohio, who crippled our defense network in June of 2011, by clicking on a link she mistakenly believed was from a dating site (of the sort she frequently browsed at work) while attempting to join a G+ hangout from a DOD computer. The source of this email has not been released, and the DOD has declined to comment. Gmail has redoubled it's login advertising campaign, and promised greater security with regards to attachments in a future release"- If They Can Write News So Can I-August 2011.
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RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
(August 3, 2011 at 12:18 pm)edk141 Wrote:
(August 3, 2011 at 12:04 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: You all can thank a combination of Microsoft & people that just don't care about things until they directly affect them for this mess.

Microsoft is responsible for the spread of malware how? I would blame, for example, the people writing it and the other people paying for its services.

That's almost like saying "Pintos are perfectly safe, it's not Ford's fault people keep rear-ending them!"

Microsoft has a large share of the blame due to the company ignoring computer security practices that had been in place for years prior to the design of Windows or Internet Explorer. Their software engineering laxity has enabled malware to flourish & they are just now starting to really care because it is finally hitting the bottom line in their Windows division.

You don't see this level of malware from OSX, BSD or Linux, because they a.) have a smaller market share (about 11% together) b.) architecturally, they are not easy targets.
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RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
(August 3, 2011 at 1:07 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: That's almost like saying "Pintos are perfectly safe, it's not Ford's fault people keep rear-ending them!"

Microsoft has a large share of the blame due to the company ignoring computer security practices that had been in place for years prior to the design of Windows or Internet Explorer. Their software engineering laxity has enabled malware to flourish & they are just now starting to really care because it is finally hitting the bottom line in their Windows division.

You don't see this level of malware from OSX, BSD or Linux, because they a.) have a smaller market share (about 11% together) b.) architecturally, they are not easy targets.

Architecturally? Can't disagree there, although there it is far from impossible to attack a Unixy OS. (a) however I think you can hardly blame Microsoft for - it's not as if they would deliberately try to give market share to their competitors.

Also - it's not like saying that at all. I don't have any trouble with malware on my Windows computers, and the people I meet who do tend to be the ones who are just plain stupid. OSX and most Linuxes both have a centrally managed app repository, which means there's less downloading of stuff. I think it's more like someone saying "Bridges are perfectly safe, it's not our fault people keep jumping off them", and you arguing that it's the maker of the bridge's fault for not putting up a suicide net.
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RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
(August 3, 2011 at 1:37 pm)edk141 Wrote: Architecturally? Can't disagree there, although there it is far from impossible to attack a Unixy OS. (a) however I think you can hardly blame Microsoft for - it's not as if they would deliberately try to give market share to their competitors.

Yes, you most assuredly can rest some of the blame on MS. They made a conscious decision to make the OS "easy" & "backwards compatible" instead of "secure". This isn't me just making things up about MS, this is a known fact in the computer security industry. You saying it's *only* the black hat's fault when MS enabled 95% of the entire malware ecosystem is laughable.

(August 3, 2011 at 1:37 pm)edk141 Wrote: Also - it's not like saying that at all. I don't have any trouble with malware on my Windows computers...

I don't have any malware issues with my 6 Windows PCs either. Notice however that the plural of anecdote isn't data.
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RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
(August 3, 2011 at 2:10 pm)Jaysyn Wrote:
(August 3, 2011 at 1:37 pm)edk141 Wrote: Architecturally? Can't disagree there, although there it is far from impossible to attack a Unixy OS. (a) however I think you can hardly blame Microsoft for - it's not as if they would deliberately try to give market share to their competitors.

Yes, you most assuredly can rest some of the blame on MS. They made a conscious decision to make the OS "easy" & "backwards compatible" instead of "secure". This isn't me just making things up about MS, this is a known fact in the computer security industry. You saying it's *only* the black hat's fault when MS enabled 95% of the entire malware ecosystem is laughable.

(August 3, 2011 at 1:37 pm)edk141 Wrote: Also - it's not like saying that at all. I don't have any trouble with malware on my Windows computers...

I don't have any malware issues with my 6 Windows PCs either. Notice however that the plural of anecdote isn't data.

If you read your own post (a) is Microsoft having the majority of market share. You seriously can't blame them for having a popular OS (you can, but it would be stupid)

MS enabled 95% of the entire malware ecosystem? You saying malware wouldn't exist if Windows didn't is what's laughable. Malware writers adapted to Windows because it was there. The first malware wasn't for Windows, the last won't be, and the hundreds of people paid to write malware would write it for other platforms if Windows wasn't available.
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RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
(August 3, 2011 at 2:34 pm)edk141 Wrote: MS enabled 95% of the entire malware ecosystem? You saying malware wouldn't exist if Windows didn't is what's laughable.

I love it when people put words in my mouth, usually means they don't have a very good argument.

What I will say is that if MS had used better security practices while designing Windows & IE, you wouldn't see botnet numbers like this.

But feel free to keep on thinking whatever it is you are thinking is true. Big Grin
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RE: "Cisco's latest Global Threat Report found almost 300,000 unique instances of malware
(August 3, 2011 at 2:46 pm)Jaysyn Wrote:
(August 3, 2011 at 2:34 pm)edk141 Wrote: MS enabled 95% of the entire malware ecosystem? You saying malware wouldn't exist if Windows didn't is what's laughable.

I love it when people put words in my mouth, usually means they don't have a very good argument.

What I will say is that if MS had used better security practices while designing Windows & IE, you wouldn't see botnet numbers like this.

But feel free to keep on thinking whatever it is you are thinking is true. Big Grin

You just did say that - to rephrase, what you said in the previous sentence is laughable. Malware writers write for Windows because it is available, not because it's not possible to write malware for other systems. We'd just see similar numbers of botnets running on other platforms.
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