The Register, an online news portal on the IT industry has reported that a local Antivirus company, Rising has has confirmed that China is now being hit by the Stuxnet worm. Rising Antivirus reported that over 6 million computers have been identified as being infected although industry experts are raising doubts of the estimate.
Although it was not stated but it is believed that the same variant of Stuxnet reported earlier is the same ones infiltrating China which means that the infection wave is still moving across the globe.
I wonder if the reported attacks are due to to the high piracy rate in China of the Microsoft Operating System causing users using pirated products to turn off Windows updating and thus becoming an easy target.
It should be cautioned that the Antivirus program is not and should not be used as a protection substitute to Windows Update. They are complimentary of each other and that is why a number of Antivirus providers including ESET is now embedding Windows update notification as part of its core program.
ESET's blog on this matter ESET blog
Source link The Register
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