[Xenalyte]

What does that percentage mean - "98% of the time in 2004"?

Does that mean that 358.68 days of the year saw virus attacks? Can't be. Every day saw a virus attack of some sort or another, AOL users being what they are.

Does it mean that 98% of my online time, I'm under attack? Don't think so, because no one asked me.

What the hell do these numbers mean? I just need to know.

[Redcloak]

What they mean is that during 98% of 2004, there were known, unpatched vulnerabilities in IE. This is being somewhat charitable. The flaws in question were there in 2003, 2002, 2001... and so on. (And, there are flaws that were not patched at all simply because they've yet to be discovered.) They report that there was only one, brief period when there were no known, unpatched flaws. Again, this is being charitable. They are assuming that since the IT community at large did not know about the flaws, no hackers did either.