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by fjarlq 5186 days ago
Estimates vary... here's one:

"It's estimated that at its peak Conficker infected more than 11 million PCs globally."

-- http://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-news-trends/reports/sec...

Numbers in the range 15-25 million were also tossed around. It's hard to estimate.

Steve Ballmer expected the Windows installed base to cross the 1 billion mark in mid-2008: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-expect-windows...

Conficker peaked around January 2009 I believe. At 10 million that would be 1% of 1 billion.