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Story: Botnet malware proliferates on Windows PCs

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 25 October 2006, 6:03 PM)

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Windows is the most common operating system (I don’t wish to defend it please don’t flame me) and that is why they are targeted, *nix users also tend to be slightly more clued up to the perils out their compared with the average Windows user, if they was educated slightly more on how to look after a windows machine (E.G, an up to date anti virus program, a firewall and at least one anti spy ware\ ad aware program) then I think the majority of the problems will go away. Also if the people who sells the PC in the first place would sit down the user and explain to them what they need to get hold of to safely connect to the web (not a demo version of programs would help). Also Steve B is correct I think the ISP’s need to do some filtering on the traffic that is passing through their networks.

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