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So it says the 'threats per endpoint' on mac has gone way up. It says 50,000,000 Windows endpoints are compromised.

It fails to mention the number of mac endpoints compromised.

I suspect is is actually not a huge number because of its omission...

Therefore, from the missing numbers of infected mac endpoints, I'll have to surmise that all they've learned is a compromised mac tends to become more and more compromised...

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No, it reports 50 million detections on Windows endpoints, not that 50 million Windows endpoints were compromised. It reports an average of 5.8 detections per Windows endpoint, from which we can compute that fewer than 10 million Windows endpoints have MalwareBytes installed but not how many have detected malware (except that the total install base is an upper bound).

A more meaningful statistic they could report is the percentage of endpoints with MalwareBytes installed that have detected malware.

That's fair, I missed that sub-detail.

It's almost as though the publisher of an anti-malware app has some motivation to exaggerate the problem, and knows how to take advantage of tech reporting's never-ending appetite for negative Apple news.

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