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China Malware War Gets Personal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fight-to-the-death dept.

bcaulfield writes to tell us Zhou Hongyi has filed a 3.6 million yuan ($450,000) defamation suit against Yahoo China. Hongyi, the former president of Yahoo China, filed his suit in response to comments made in a recent Yahoo press conference accusing him of unethical business practices. From the article: "A rift between Mr. Zhou and Yahoo China has been developing since before his departure from Yahoo last year, just prior to Alibaba's takeover of Yahoo's China operations. Mr. Zhou doled out generous bonuses to Yahoo employees in a ploy his detractors derided as a naked purchase of loyalties. Mr. Zhou defended the disbursements. 'Many of these people were longtime Yahoo employees, and they were under no obligation to follow me,' he said. 'It was my money to do with as I wanted.'" Update 08/20/2006 15:01 GMT by SM: Corrected the currency for the suit.

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  1. malware? by postmortem · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Article itself contains some details about rampant malware in China. This is in my opinion interesting part:

    "There's only one browser address bar, and we were all competing for that space," he said. "We all tried to uninstall one another. And we all just went further and further down that road. If you can protect your software from being uninstalled by a competitor's, then imagine how hard it is for a regular user to uninstall."

    So, in some way every browser toolbar is a malware.
    1. Re:malware? by euri.ca · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Speaking from a Chinese internet cafe (from Firefox on my USB drive) EVERY public computer has a few toolbars on Internet explorer. Even little 640 by 480 screens are cluttered up with 2 or 3 value-added bars! One at a hotel in Hanoi (Vietnam not China) had a big bar to tell me the temperature was -999 degrees, and I couldn't get rid of it.

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      A12A.713 is the root of ASC('evil')
  2. Re:this is ironic by Tomhl · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Indeed,

    money is everything in China these days, you can be sure this is about money. Plus I'm perfectly sure he bought those loyalties, because that's totally normal amongst Chinese people in every position. It's totally normal in China to bribe people around you to convince them to do something in your favour - I know several lower gov't official and judges who fund their lifestyle this way.

    In China everything seems to be about 'face' and money.