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Re: UK tops zombie PC chart (again)
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:38:39 +0100 (BST)
Britain is once again 'top of the bots' with the world's highest proportion of known bot-infected computers. In the first half of 2005, The UK has almost a third (32 per cent) of all bots virus-infected, zombie PCs under the control of hackers and used for malicious purposes such as identity theft and spam distribution . Britain also topped the chart in the second half of last year with a lower 26 per cent rating.
Sings Jerusalem<
For Americans and Israelis who don't know, that's our National Song, and bit like the American "My country tis of thee" (which they sing to the tune of God Save the Queen), "German, German overalls" or "Advance Australia fair"
Symantec reckons the likely cause of this rise is down to the rapid growth in broadband subscriptions and the delayed download of software patches for operating systems and software.
I think there's rather a lot of broadband here, and I doubt if home computer users download patches. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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