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On Thursday 15 May 2008, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> Justin <justin@×××××××××.net> writes: |
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> > I understand it the other way round. It is not an active knocking on |
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> > your ports, but a passive MS thing. Lots of Chinese bought a new |
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> > computer with an MS operating system, which is sending out to the |
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> > world. |
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> Justin, |
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> A moments thought would indicate that logic has a large flaw in it. |
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> MS is the largest selling OS world wide .. that would indicate I |
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> should see this traffic from all parts of the world. But what I see is |
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> probably 85 % chinese in origin. |
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The large flaw in logic you noticed may be smaller than initial assumptions |
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would suggest. In essence the Chinese MSWindows users are new in the scene |
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and not as technically savvy as their primarily western counterparts. The |
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latter have been through the educational cycle of getting infected and |
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reinstalling WinXP a few times over. Arguably the Chinese machines are not |
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as well patched, or updated (you can google for figures of illegitimate WinXP |
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copies in Asia . . . ) |
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It can't be a coincidence that the highest growth in botnets is closely |
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correlated with the arrival of capitalistic consumerism in developing |
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countries like China, Eastern Europe, Russia and South America. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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