[GLLUG] Analysis of viruses on commercial operating systems

[Taylor Burke]

Thanks for the reply, but I found one that'll work fine for now (
http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis?pubid=204792070 ).

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:
> On 09/17/2011 06:42 PM, Taylor Burke wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Do any of you have any papers, presentations, or something along those
>> lines detailing the amounts of viruses that exist for commercial OSes?
>> I'm talking BSD, UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Mac, of course. It's for a
>> class paper, so if any of you have any idea where I could find that
>> information, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
> Arbor Networks frequently releases papers with surveys of malware, you might
> try tooling around their website (www.arbornetworks.com), especially the
> technical blogs. Full disclosure: they're my bread and butter.  These
> reports will generally be focused on DDoS and similar threats, because
> that's what they do.
>
> Most of the major anti-virus providers also release such surveys.  Kaspersky
> in particular releases an annual survey, and Symantec may.
>
> Clay
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