Ah- we cross posted.
The only number that's interesting is the % of infected computers, which was 2%, according to the made up numbers in the article. The number of scans doesn't tell us anything, except how some people ran the scan more than once. Who cares about that.
I'm curious what the author's point was. It's not a big number. It doesn't indicate a problem of great magnitude. But the author seems to think it's a big problem. What's the problem?
Both of the articles I found were mis-understanding the Microsoft Report... and the authors assumed the 5.7 million computers were a statistical sample of the total population and based their stories on that mistake.
One even had the headline "Microsoft's Malware Report: 60 Percent of PCs Infected" which I posted in FR! Even more embarassing is that headline comes from the supposedly pro-PC TechNewsWorld.com. They were ready to believe it.
Sometimes perception is more telling than fact.