On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:04:53 GMT, nemo_outis wrote:
> comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote in news:84k5l0x126@news.giganews.com:
>
> Let's really be safe - flatten and rebuild the system at least twice a day.

Or change Operating Systems. :-D

> Or hourly. After all, let's not take any chances by waiting for any
> symptoms of malware to appear - instead be proactive and preempt by hourly
> rebuilds. Just to really play it safe :-)

Hourly, is not going to hack it.
5,000,000 divided by 365 = 13,698.6 new malware per day
13,698.6 divided by 24 hr = 570.7 new malware per hour.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=143424

Hey, go to
http://www.commtouch.com/Site/Resear...t_activity.asp

Check out some of the detection rates for your AV product on what is
going around just in email.