One-third of Chinese Net users hit by virus

The Sobig.F worm may have attacked 30 percent of China's poorly protected Internet users, wreaking havoc on more than 20 million computers, business executives and officials said Saturday.

China's growing online population has been an easy prey to the virus, which has exploited a low level of awareness and a widespread absence of efficient anti-virus software to infect computers across the country, they said.

"We've never seen anything like it," said Hao Ting, a spokeswoman for Beijing Rising Technology, an Internet security company.

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Why am I always a trouble maker? But... I do NOT believe this report! ALL software in China is free. Anything you want you get from a friend or you can buy for 50cents at any of a million markets. I've seen every copy of all the lastest software including all virus software. Everyone's got it. Chinese people very computer literate. Anyone who's got a connect also has a yahoo or hotmail account.

I did get about 10 Sobig from my Chinese friends with a 12 hour period but I don't think it's as this story reports.

http://darker0darker.tripod.com/

"May have" is pretty ambiguious. Hell, it "may have" become human and wandered the streets of Hunan drinking pina colladas and shooting out street lights with a .45 automatic before it jumped back into binary form and re-infected all those computers.

I am not suprised. Most of those millions of computer networks have been dashed together over the past 2 years, this is the first major worm (not virus...note...WORM) since then and the only way to defend against a worm like this is to have lived through an attack.