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[News] [Rival] Chinese Windows Users at Great Risk Online

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Chinese Windows Users at Great Risk Online
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:15:07 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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China warns of a new virus

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| A PARTICULARLY NASTY computer virus has 
| been discovered in China and the government 
| there is warning that it could spread fast.
| 
| Although details of the Worm_Piloyd.B are 
| fairly sketchy at the moment, it is unusual 
| to get a virus warning from China before 
| the rest of the world has caught it.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1563029/china-warns-virus


Related:

Bots rule in cyberspace

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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm


Botnets Running Rampant

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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.  
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
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