On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:46 AM, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:27:59 EDT, Kevin McAleavey said: >> I haven't seen much of anything and I'm in my 13th hour of sitting >> here, >> waiting for what Marvin the Martian once said, "Where's the Kaboom? >> There was >> supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!" > > As I said - oh-dark-thirty sometime in the future. A metric > shitload of the > 20M compromised systems will probably get patched due to the > hysteria. Say 75%.
On the enterprise side, that may be true. I expect the number that got patched as a result of the publicity to be a much smaller percentage on the consumer side, say 20%. And, I'm further willing to bet that consumer machines make up at least 75% of the estimated 20M machines. So there will still be > 13M compromised boxes post-hype. - Paul - _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
