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From: Man-wai Chang on 4 Aug 2010 08:31 > | Are there that many malwares from China? I have no statistics on hand. > > The problem is much is Gov't. backed vs. criminal organization like the RBN. > If US just told them all US military & intelligence facilities were actually not connected to the Internet, they might stop doing it. :) -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.35 ^ ^ 20:29:01 up 6:15 0 users load average: 0.00 0.02 0.00 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: David H. Lipman on 4 Aug 2010 16:58 From: "Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet(a)gmail.com> >> | I never understood why the virus signatures get bigger& bigger... :) >> Because every day there are more and more items of malware identified and thus the >> libraries of identification (signatures) grow. | Don't they all have some common pattern/signature, or maybe a common | stack frame? Nope. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: David H. Lipman on 4 Aug 2010 16:57 From: "Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet(a)gmail.com> >> | Are there that many malwares from China? I have no statistics on hand. >> The problem is much is Gov't. backed vs. criminal organization like the RBN. | If US just told them all US military & intelligence facilities were | actually not connected to the Internet, they might stop doing it. :) All "US military & intelligence facilities" are connected to the Internet via the NIPRnet. However "US military & intelligence facilities" are not spearphishing other Gov'ts. to intall malware on their systems to gain military intellegence and industrial dominence. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Lars Uffmann on 5 Aug 2010 06:30
On 08/04/2010 10:57 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: > However "US military & intelligence facilities" are not spearphishing other Gov'ts. to > intall malware on their systems to gain military intellegence and industrial dominence. THAT is a highly disputable statement. *g* Cheers, Lars |