The amount of malware coming from China rose 153 percent during the last six months of 2005. The increase came in remote-controlled “bot” attacks emanating from China during the period. The number of bot-infected computers in China rose 37 percent. The United States has the highest number of such machines in the world, Symantec says. Rising Internet use in China, and a lack of precautions taken by new users, may be contributing to the jump, expert says. “The problem is that computer users all over the world are inevitably lazy, and therefore prone to getting infected””]
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