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Kapersky cautions against sending second hand PCs to 3rd world countries
According to Eugene Kapersky, the head of anti virus company, Kapersky, sending computers to developing and underprivileged companies may be a serious factor in the creation of malicious software as well as "malware for hire" schemes.
He says that nations, which are still in the developmental stage, have now become some of the main hubs for the advancement of malware. Therefore it is dangerous to be sending PCs to countries that already have virus authors residing within them.
He claims that a particular cause for concern is programs, which advocate 'cheap computers for poor third world countries'. Apparently, these programs further encourage criminal activity on the Internet. He goes on to say that statistics on the number of malicious programs originating from specific countries confirm that the world leader in virus writing is China, followed by Latin America, with Russia and Eastern European countries not far behind.
The Register, an online IT website, wanted to ask Kapersky about the positive use of these PCs in education and development but he was not available to speak with them.
However, a Kapersky spokesperson said that while there was a definite advantage in donating second hand PCs to developing countries, the increase in malware from these countries cannot be disregarded.
Read the original article here
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/13/pc_donation_peril/
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