http://laptop.org/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Drsolly Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:46 PM To: Juha-Matti Laurio Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] Computer viruses slow African expansion
Grannix On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > "Hampered by pirated software and super-slow download times, computer users > in Africa are finding PC viruses hard to eradicate. > > Alan Mercer was at his desk in the regional capacity building bureau in > Assosa, western Ethiopia, when a man burst into his office, distraught. > Right at the end of a four-year master's degree programme, he had lost the > only copy of his thesis to a computer virus. > Mercer, an IT trainer with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), wasn't > surprised. "Show me an Ethiopian computer without a virus and I'd ask which > foreigner it belongs to," he says. > > While western countries have partially learned to neutralise the threat of > computer viruses, Africa has become a hive of trojans, worms and exploiters > of all stripes. > As PC use on the continent has spread in the past decade (in Ethiopia it has > gone from 0.01% of the Ethiopian population to 0.45% through 1999-2008), > viruses have hitched a ride, wreaking havoc on development efforts, > government programmes and fledgling businesses." > --clip-- > > And more sad facts follow: > ""PCs that were bought with limited funds or donated sit collecting dust in > the corner of the room because they have been devastated by viruses," > says André Mohamed, an IT professional in Ethiopia. "It's a major reduction > in productivity and efficiency."" > > More at > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/12/ethiopia-computer-virus > > Juha-Matti > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. Protected by Websense Hosted Email Security -- www.websense.com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
