ITworld: What you always wanted to know about malware (but were afraid to ask)

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By Markus Jakobsson
August 21, 2008

Malware, like real-world epidemics, has the strange property that it does not only matter to your health how well protected you are, but also, how well average people "out there" are. The more machines that are infected, the higher is your risk of also becoming infected. But that is not all: You are at risk even if you are well protected!

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