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What's the best estimate of total Trojans?
« on: Feb 19th, 2003, 7:22pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
I remember when an update included four or five new additions - the last one must be ten times that...
 
It made me wonder how many Trojans are estimated to 'out there' (not necessarily 'in the wild'). I realise there's a difference in the way the different AT 'houses' do their counting - some include every variant and jack the figures up to the high teens of thousands, others just count one for a Trojan and its variants (just like AV software really - it's the old 'ours stops more than theirs' attitude). However, maybe there's some sort of consensus on what is lurking? Maybe not - I don't know!
 
This might help answer that other thread regarding the update file size - there might be a projected maximum size (say, within the next 12 months we expect it to remain less than 750KB, or something).
 
C'mon - I know it's a 'crystal ball' exercise, but have a go!
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Re: What's the best estimate of total Trojans?
« Reply #1 on: Feb 19th, 2003, 7:57pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
According to my NAV2003, latest definitions, they detect 63049 programs, some of which are certainly Trojans. Many of the Trojan's are classified as Malicious programs (352). I would have thought that 63049 might be a useful upper bound for the size, although 352 is certainly far lower than most AT's will detect!
 
The other thing to consider is that some AT's detect both the client and the server part of the Trojan, so counts may be misleading there as well.
 
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Re: What's the best estimate of total Trojans?
« Reply #2 on: Feb 19th, 2003, 8:03pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
on Feb 19th, 2003, 7:57pm, acheton wrote:

 
The other thing to consider is that some AT's detect both the client and the server part of the Trojan, so counts may be misleading there as well.
 
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I think that's the nub of the problem here - what is a trojan? As to how many there are, the simple answer would be - more each day.  
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