”Made in China” Ping.
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Posted on 09/04/2007 3:54:15 PM PDT by bamahead
China is host to almost half of the world's malware-infected Web sites.
According to a report released Monday by antivirus company Sophos, China--including Hong Kong--hosted 44.8 percent of the world's infected sites in August. The U.S. ranked a distant second, hosting 20.8 percent of sites that contain malicious code.
The number of infected Web pages has also grown. Sophos said it detected an average of 5,000 new infected pages each day in the month of August.
The company warned that simply staying clear of sites hosted in the top three countries of China, the U.S. and Russia is not an effective method of avoiding malware.
"Hackers are hijacking Web sites around the world to make them point to malware on sites based in China, the U.S. and Russia," Carole Theriault, Sophos senior security consultant, said in a statement.
Sophos also warned about a sharp rise in spam pointing people to these infected sites. Malicious senders, in an attempt to bypass attachment virus scanners, are using messages that direct people to Web sites with malicious code. Computers get infected when people click on the links in the e-mail message.
"Most malware writers...are using spam and the Web to infect users," Theriault said. "Criminals are hard at work trying to slip past filters at the corporate gateway."
June saw a spike in spam hosted on Chinese domains, when the figure rose from almost zero to 450 spam domains.
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And yet most people tell me I’m nuts when I tell them that China, Russia, Iran, and Korea are behind most of our internet ills.
I wonder if they sent me the email about MegaDik.
They can’t find the anti-vilus software ...
June saw a spike in spam hosted on Chinese domains
that explains the stupider-than-normal spam subject lines I’ve noticed lately
Internet spam is a rapidly increasing source of informational pollution, and straight from China
firewall and ip hiding software, never leave home without it.
“MegaDik”
I LOL when I got that email.
hey, I got that email too... lol
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