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Cameroon the New Hotbed of Malware

Posted by samzenpus on from the none-more-infected dept.

garg0yle writes "According to McAfee, more than a third of Cameroon domains (TLD of .cm) are infested with viruses or other not-so-fun party treats. Given that it's very easy to mis-type .com as .cm, this puts the computers of a lot of fat-fingered typists in peril. Second place on the most-infested domains list goes to China (.cn), while Hong Kong (last year's 'winner') is now comfortably middle-of-the-pack."

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  1. Re:Mistype by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    what about .co, .con, .om?

    .co is Colombia, .om is Oman, but .con doesn't exist.

    They don't seem to be high risk websites.

    What is "they" in that sentence, or did you mean "TLDs" instead of "websites"?

    I also wonder whether slashdot.og is infested with viruses.

    .og doesn't exist. You might want to consult a list of TLDs before you ask a bunch of "what about" questions. Or install a robust browser and try to load the url instead of just wondering about it.