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Reuters: 80% of Chinese Computers Virus Infected

Posted by chrisd on from the flawed-methodologies-day dept.

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."

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  1. In other words... by supabeast! · · Score: 1, Redundant

    80% of Chinese computers run Windows.

  2. A chinese virus just sent a message to Beijing... by Frank+of+Earth · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "All your computers are belong to us"

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  3. Re:goldmine for software publishers by red_dragon · · Score: 1, Redundant

    When the updates are available via anonymous FTP (and at least some of them still do), it's not a huge deal. As long as you don't give your real e-mail address when prompted, that is.

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  4. OK, OK. Here's how to read it. by twitter · · Score: 1, Redundant
    You must be right. 80% of computer users in China were disatisfied with their computer's performance. That matches up well with performance internationaly and also with M$ percentage of computer O$. Coincidence? I don't think so.

    Is XP and DRM where you wanted to go yesterday?

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  5. These numbers should drop by mao+che+minh · · Score: 0, Redundant
    These numbers should drop once Linux is adopted to a greater degree.

    Yes, mod me down for redundancy, for I did not read through the previous posts and I know that at least 20 people have said this already.