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."

Comments

Solution: Open Source Anti-virus Software

[ddkilzer]

See Clam AntiVirus and OpenAntiVirus.

Re:goldmine for software publishers

[f97tosc]

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.

Tor

Re:Incorrect

[dzym]

Or the virus could have faked both ends of the returned mail and the returned mail itself could be the virus.

They may not have been infected at all.

Re:goldmine for software publishers

[scott1853]

Does McAffee still allow free access to all their software by logging with with abc:123?

Re:In Other news

[dildatron]

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.