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Reuters: 80% of Chinese Computers Virus Infected
Alien54 writes "A rueters news report says that 80% of computers in China have been touched by a computer virus. They quote a a six-week survey conducted by the [Chinese] National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center cited in the official China Daily newspaper."
That must be why the text looks like gibberish.
See Clam AntiVirus and OpenAntiVirus.
Anti-virus software is actually more difficult to pirat than most other software.
The idea is that you must visit the vendor's web site frequently and download the latest update.
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They may not have been infected at all.
Right...
Like Norton Anti-Virus? I assume the hundreds of CDs that float around pirated come from China, but I could be wrong. Anyhow, I know of many many local computer OEMs that sell them with systems. They work just the same as regular copies.
Not likely. Blocking out websites by domain/ip is much simpler than actually scanning incoming packets for viruses. Any trained monkey can designate a website to block. However identifying a unique signature of a virus and applying that to all of China's gateways before it infects a fair # of boxes requires far more money and man power than they'd ever care to pay. Besides, lots of computer viruses written today are FROM China.
Does McAffee still allow free access to all their software by logging with with abc:123?
I suspect this happens quite a bit. From what I have heard from a guy I know down there, pirates software is as plentiful as stink on shit, and really really cheap. He also said it was definately buyer beware, cause you never know what you're gonna get. Even Microsoft has released infected CD's, imagine the piraters - they are just after the almighty dollar (or yen in this case) - they don't have near all the checks companies go through before they release a product, and they are often not "Exact" duplicates because much of the software has been cracked (and therefore edited).
reminds me of AIDS in Africa. No end in sight.
If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
> 1) Clam AntiVirus
> Linux only.
To quote the site "Clam AntiVirus works with Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, AIX, Mac OS X, Cygwin B20 on multiple architectures such as Intel, Alpha, Sparc, Cobalt MIPS boxes, PowerPC, RISC 6000. "
they are just after the almighty dollar (or yen in this case)
It's kind of nitpicky, but in China they use the Yuan not the Yen.
1 Yuan = 14.9331 Yen = 0.120817 USD
Never disturb your enemy while he is busy making a mistake.
I was in Vietnam over the summer. Vietnam is #1 in the word for software piracy, with 94%. They cram everything they can fit onto a cd and with that comes some extra stuff you didn't even pay for...I was not surprised when I scanned five cds to find 4 of the 5 containing at least a few virii.
L.A. TIMES Saturday, September 28, 1996
Microsoft Halts Sales of Chinese Windows 95
By RONE TEMPEST, Times Staff Writer
BEIJING--In a setback to its international operations, Microsoft Corp. has halted sales of its newest Chinese-language operating system across China after the government objected to anti-Communist slogans in some of the software, company executives confirmed Friday.
The announcement came after raids by police on several computer software stores in Beijing earlier in the week. The police confiscated Windows 95 installation kits containing phrases--common in Nationalist Chinese propaganda--that describe the Chinese leadership as "Communist bandits."
Microsoft executives said they are still investigating how the phrases made it into the version of Windows 95 marketed in mainland China, which is still governed by the Communist Party. Beginning today, Microsoft said, it will offer an upgrade on the Internet that will delete language described by Microsoft China President Duh Jia-Bin as "culturally inappropriate."
IIRC, the real quote is that crisis is composed of two characters the meanings of which are danger and opportunity.
What was scary is that I stayed in a 5 star hotel, went to their "on-site" doctor, and he swabbed iodine over a bite that had been infected on my leg (andwas swollen 6 inches across) and thought that would take care of it.
Dude, you want to hear something really scary? I went to an American doctor with a cold, and he gave me an antibiotic! Is that insane, or what? Those american doctors are complete and total fucktards, I think.
Slashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.