http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/tags/Bott/default.aspxTags: Botten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2006/11/02/can-numbers-stand-on-their-heads.aspxThu, 02 Nov 2006 19:24:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:933454alexkoc3http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/comments/933454.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/wga/commentrss.aspx?PostID=933454<P>Sure they can but then they're just upside down numbers. <A class="" title="Ed Bott's Blog" href="http://www.edbott.com/weblog/" mce_href="http://www.edbott.com/weblog/">Ed Bott</A> posted on his <A class="" title="Ed Bott's Blog" href="http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1532" mce_href="http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1532">personal blog</A> a link to a <A class="" title="Long Zheng" href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061101/reverse-microsoft-piracy/" mce_href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061101/reverse-microsoft-piracy/">post</A> by blogger <A class="" title="Long Zheng" href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061101/reverse-microsoft-piracy/" mce_href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061101/reverse-microsoft-piracy/">Long Zheng</A> asking (tongue-in-cheek) if the numbers in the report can be turned on their heads? For example, does the fact that 25% of the sites surveyed in the research try to infect connecting systems with malware mean that the other 75% were clean? Well, yes actually. The question then becomes for anyone willing to take those odds, how do you tell before you connect to a site whether it's bad or not? In other words, you have a three in four chance of getting pirated software and a one in four chance of getting attacked. Hmmm, lemme think...</P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=933454" width="1" height="1">Bottmalware