Gartner: Antivirus is biggest security expense
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| Spending on security software across Europe is expected to top 2.4 billion
| euros ($3.3 billion) this year, with antivirus software continuing to form
| the largest slice of the pie.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6207989.html
This money comes from the pockets of Windows users.
Storm Worm linked to spam surge
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| Infection turns PCs into zombie spam drones under the control of hackers.
| MessageLabs reckons the Storm Worm botnet accounts for 1.8m compromised PCs
| worldwide.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/14/storm_worm_analysis/
1.8 million is very little compared to the total. It's just almost fraction of
1%.
Related:
Hotmail still riddled with spam
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| Microsoft has admitted that up to 98 per cent of messages sent to
| Hotmail addresses are spam.
|
| [...]
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| The findings will disappoint Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who
| predicted at the 2004 Davos World Economic Forum that spam would
| be "eliminated" within two years.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2188226/hotmail-riddled-spam-admits
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
|
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
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