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To: HairOfTheDog
Close enough? :~D

Close.... but I think you misplaced a decimal in this calculation:

2,700,000,000 / 16,000,000 = 0.59%

Should be 5.9%....

but, according to the actual report from MS, those ~16 million malware were only on the 5.7 million infected computers. The reason the number of malware was greater than the number of infected computers was because they found that if a computer was infected, it was likely infected with more than one malware.

So the ~16 Million malware were actually on only ~2.1% of the computers.

9 posted on 06/14/2006 8:54:04 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!")
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To: Swordmaker
2,700,000,000 / 16,000,000 = 0.59% Should be 5.9%....

Sheesh... I'm getting math challenged too... you were referring to the total number of scans, approximately 10 per computer, right?

put the decimal back... .59%

10 posted on 06/14/2006 8:57:53 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!")
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To: Swordmaker
Close.... but I think you misplaced a decimal in this calculation:

No I didn't... do it yourself!

2,700,000,000 / 16,000,000 = 0.005925926

but, according to the actual report from MS, those ~16 million malware were only on the 5.7 million infected computers. The reason the number of malware was greater than the number of infected computers was because they found that if a computer was infected, it was likely infected with more than one malware.

I understand that. And that makes perfect sense to me. :~)

11 posted on 06/14/2006 9:00:57 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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