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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."

3 of 92 comments (clear)

  1. Missing keys? by TheProphet92 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I rarely miss the 'o' key altogether, more commonly I press a different one accidentally, like 'cpm' or 'con'.

  2. POLL: have you ever mistyped .cm for .com? by theNAM666 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Really? I've never done it. Never. /me goes to point .cm to 127.0.0.1 .

  3. No, I don't think it is by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Given that it's very easy to mis-type .com as .cm, ...

    I can safely say I've never done this. I've made other errors - such as ending up in Estonia's (.ee) web space on occasion, since I work in an electrical engineering department. But I can't believe leaving out the "o" from ".com" is particularly easy or at all common.

    Now if you wanted to talk about Colombia (.co) being a frequent typo for .com domains, then I might find it more believable. I have done that on rare occasions.

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