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Europe Home to Majority of Zombies

Posted by samzenpus on from the stop-the-spam dept.

Rei writes "According to a recent CipherTrust study, the majority of Zombie PCs reside not in the US or China, but in Europe. Of the European zombies, 2/3 were either in Germany, France, or Britain. The results were released with the announcement of CipherTrust's new ZombieMeter. As a response to previous reports of high zombie activity, the London Action Plan launched Operation Spam Zombies in cooperation with numerous governments around the world."

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  1. Should we block the zombies? by sammykrupa · · Score: 0, Troll

    What do you guys think?

    -Block em. Make the people run anti- software and lose money!

    -Don't block them! Make the internet a bad place!

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    Dashboard Widgets
  2. Why is this so? by Dancin_Santa · · Score: -1, Troll

    What is the cultural underpinning for not keeping PCs patched? I understand that the population in Europe, with its plummeting birthrates, is slowly becoming older, but I can't imagine that the reason for this problem is because of grandpa Johan not knowing about patching.

    Is it because of an innate sense of distrust of New World things? Are they unwilling to download the latest patches from Microsoft and this is resulting in their computers being open to zombie attacks?

    And of all the places you'd expect badly configured computers, Britain, Germany, and France are the least likely candidates. Is this because they hate Bush?

  3. Who the hell is responsible? by elgee · · Score: 0, Troll

    I want to know who in the hell allowed the French to have computers.

  4. That's Surprisnig... by DaedalusLogic · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought typical zombies needed brains to live. These "zombie PCs" thrive even without them.

    All together now...

    USA! USA! USA!