The state of the computing industry
Some rather depressing reading
here. Some highlights:
- About 1 in 12 e-mails carried viruses in the first six months of 2004
- There are now 1,740 known, unpatched security flaws in Windows and other operating systems,
- Spam exceeded 70% of all e-mail in July 2004
- Phishing attacks are growing at a rate of 50% PER MONTH
- More than 20% of PCs tested by PCPitstop have active in memory one or more programs the company defines as "spyware."
- A single U.S. ISP, Comcast.net, sends 700 million spam messages a day