Question regarding an article from Microsft Hellas's CEO

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 22:17, Niall Douglas wrote:
> IDC will almost certainly be calculating the rate by dividing the 
> total number of viruses by the total number of installations, 
> reasoning that the more people are using a system then the more 
> viruses will be written for it.

I've seen an article debunking this mith almost to a mathematical level,
proving the number of installations has little to do with virus making
and spreading.

Rui

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