Europe Home to Majority of Zombies

Rei writes "According to a recent CipherTrust study, the majority of Zombie PCs reside not in the US or China, but in Europe. Of the European zombies, 2/3 were either in Germany, France, or Britain. The results were released with the announcement of CipherTrust's new ZombieMeter. As a response to previous reports of high zombie activity, the London Action Plan launched Operation Spam Zombies in cooperation with numerous governments around the world."

This might give us a hint ...

[Raindance]

... as to where the evil clerics are.

This is so obvious.

[Seumas]

This has been obvious to me ever since Wolfenstein 3D almost 14 years ago.

Re:Old news...

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you hear the European Union chanting off in the distance?

We're number one! We're number one!

Velcome to Shproket

[jrivar59]

Voud u like to touch my zombie?

Solution...

[da3dAlus]

Call in Shaun of the Dead!

Ed: Any zombies out there?
Shaun: Don't say that!
Ed: What?
Shaun: The "zed" word. Don't say it!
Ed: Well... are they any?
Shaun: I don't see any. Maybe it's not as bad as all that.
Shaun: Oh, no wait, there they are.

The Remedy

[SparksMcGee]

Whether hacked computers and their clueless users or hideous undead out for brains, nothing beats the tried and true shotgun.

Time for new SMTP error messages

[TheNarrator]

550 <[e-mail]>: Recipient address rejected: cleric casts repel undead at spam zombie;

Re:Zombies...?

[mooingyak]

Fascinating. But what is a "worm" or a "virus"? Did the article define those too?

Re:isn't surprising

[Anonymous Coward]

Where is this "Rest of the World" place? Is it past The Ocean, or somewhere in the suburbs? There's Northern Nowhere starting in upstate, Western Nowhere over the river, and Southern Nowhere on the other side of Jersey, so I can't think of any other places it could be. Though I suppose it could be nestled somewhere in Queens or Long Island, those are far enough out of the way to hide in. Oh, I get it, it's like those "other cities" all the teams that show up to lose to the Yankees supposedly come from. Quite a fine piece of showmanship, that "other cities" idea!

Europe Home to Majority of Zombies

[Dancin_Santa]

Europe Home to Majority of Zombies

Which explains the smell.

Pfft, old news

[Y-Crate]

Everybody knows '28 Days Later' started out as a warning about the dangers of spam.

the 6th sense

[MasterSLATE]

Cole: I see dead people...
Crowe: In your dreams?
Cole shakes his head
Crowe: While you're awake?
Cole nods
Crowe: Dead people like in graves and coffins?
Cole: ...They don't know they're dead
Crowe: How often do you see them?
Cole: everytime I go to Europe, (pause) they're everywhere...

Hooray for the Internet

[mcc]

Man. If you could go back in time to 1980 and tell everyone that in 25 years, European governments would be spearheading an initiative called "Operation Spam Zombies", and that this name was not in any way meant to be humorous, the looks on peoples faces would be priceless.

Re:Witches... in England!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's true. One of them turned me into a newt!

Re:This is so obvious.

[alex_guy_CA]

Good god, I saw the title of the article, and I thought they meant, you know, zombies.

Never have I been happier to learn that they were talking about evil spam spewing Windows machines

zergs

[Lord Omlette]

Guns are outlawed in most of Europe, right? How will they defend themselves?

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[account_deleted]

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That's easy.

[jd]

The zombies are a clear reference to the House of Lords, so the evil cleric must be the Blair Witch Project.

Re:Witches... in England!

[Anonymous Coward]

... ...

I got better...

I for one ...

[JaF893]

I for one welcome our new Zombie overlords.

Re:zergs

[bursch-X]

Europe has the most deadly strike force on earth:

British hooligans.

Just tell them the zombies are from the 'other' team and the matter is sealed.

Re:Understand now?

[gmuslera]

Nah, do the real change, Replace the MS for an X in MS Windows and most of your actual problems will dissapea... well, may come others, of course, instead of being zombie you could become r00ted, 0wned or h4x0red and pass a lot of time trying to undestand what those extrange words with numbers mean.

Re:Solution...

[rjshields]

as an aussie, ... with two scotsmen and a dutchman

I read that and though thought you were starting a bar joke.

Re:This is so obvious.

[fanblade]

Hehe, I would agree except the article clearly states "zombie PCs."

I wonder where all the zombie NPCs live?