[GLLUG] Analysis of viruses on commercial operating systems

[Taylor]

...What? No. I was aware of that article, but it didn't have all of the information I needed. Trust me, that was the FIRST place I looked.

Sent from my iPod

On Sep 17, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Mark Thuemmel <ldaphelp at thuemmel.com> wrote:

> On 09/17/2011 10:34 PM, Taylor Burke wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 
> Taylor, are you a troll?
> 
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Linux_malware