On Thu, 25 May 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:
Regardless of the numbers, I think we are currently stuck in a very nasty spot
1. Reduce the cost of fixing/protecting a computer 2. or increase the losses from compromised computers
Either way, the consumer will eventually end up paying for it.
Systems eventually get replaced (including home ones), so to keep up the bot numbers new systems need to be able to be just as unsecure and infectable as old ones. If new systems were 100% protected the number of bots should in theory start to decrease in the same in the rate opposite or close to the rate of infection. That it does not happen means that either: 1. New systems are still badly engineered as far as security or 2. The infections are not as much product of bad system security design as it is result of social engineering schemes that certain percent of users are vulnerable to -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william@elan.net