More than half of Windows machines are INFECTED with malware

[Edward Craig]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> Michael Haney wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Amedee,
>>>
>>> got it right now ;)
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 00:31 +0200, Amedee Van Gasse (on Ubuntu mailing lists) wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, October 2, 2009 09:07, Conrad Knauer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I didn't realize it was that bad, but hey, on average that means that
>>>>> every other Ubuntu install takes a malware-compromised system out of
>>>>> commission :)
>>>>>
>>>> Yep. The other Ubuntu install is one less for the other Linux distro's.
>>>> First we had IBM, then we had Microsoft, then came Google, and will
>>>> Canonical be the next Evil Empire? ;-)
>>>>
>>> Maybe, if they ever get large enough to really play with the behemoths.
>>>
>>
>> Not likely, there's a little something called the GPL standing in
>> their way of becoming anything even remotely like that.
>>
>>
>
>
> I am sorry but that does not make any sense. You do realize that Google
> is coming out with something that uses GPL software right? Their new
> ChromeOS will be using a Linux kernel and I assume a fair bit of GNU
> software too unless they intend to rewrite/create a good portion of what
> goes into their operating system.
The GPL ensures that there can be nothing we can't find in the OS.
Whether we find it in time requires better concealment than I expect
malware authors can commit to. Google might include easter eggs but I
doubt any malware can take advantage.


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Edward P. Craig
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