Re: UK tops zombie PC chart (again)

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

> 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.

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