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Special Forums Cybersecurity Virus/Malware Uptake Rates Post 302589407 by treesloth on Wednesday 11th of January 2012 01:57:38 PM

01-11-2012

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Virus/Malware Uptake Rates

Hi. I'm trying to get information about the rates at which viruses and malware infect computers.

Let's say that Mr. Dastardly Developer discovers an exploitable flaw, writes a virus to take advantage of it, and releases the virus. Assuming that a large-scale attack method is chosen (Facebook, for example), it's reasonable to suppose that there would be an initial rise from zero infected computers to some substantial number as the virus propagates; then as (1) the infection level approaches population-wide and (2) awareness and countermeasures are applied, the rate of infection would start to decline, as would the total number of infected computers. Eventually, it seems that the infection count would get to some comparatively low number and begin a very long-term, very slow decline to virtually nothing; after all, some computers are probably only "fixed" by being completely retired by oblivious owners that go any buy another computer and fail to properly maintain that one, too.

So, any suggestions on where one might get information about these patterns? How rapid is the initial uptake? When does the rate of infection plateau? When does it decline? Any other useful metrics?

Many thanks in advance.

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MAKETEXT(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      MAKETEXT(1p)

NAME

       maketext - translate and make messages

SYNOPSIS

	 maketext [OPTION] [--domain=TEXTDOMAIN] MSGKEY [PARAM...]
	 maketext [OPTION] -s MSGID [PARAM...]

DESCRIPTION

       The "maketext" script translates a natural language message into the user's language, by looking up the translation in a message MO file,
       and process the plural transformation with Maketext.

       The "maketext" script is a command-line interface to Locale::Maketext::Gettext(3) (and Locale::Maketext(3)).  It can be used in shell
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	 % maketext -s "[*,_1,virus was,viruses were] found in [*,_2,file,files]." 0 1
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OPTIONS

       -d,--domain=TEXTDOMAIN
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       -s  Adds a new line to the end of the output so that it behaves like the `echo' or the `gettext' command.

       -h,--help
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       -V,--version
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       MSGKEY
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       PARAM...
	   Parameters to Maketext for the plural and other text functions.

ENVIRONMENT

       TEXTDOMAIN
	   TEXTDOMAIN is used to determine the text domain when the -d parameter is not given.

       TEXTDOMAINDIR
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NOTES

       Maketext language function override, like "quant" or "numerate", is not available here.	Suggestions are welcome.

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SEE ALSO

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