Cameroon the New Hotbed of Malware 92
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samzenpus
from the none-more-infected dept.
from the none-more-infected dept.
garg0yle writes "According to McAfee, more than a third of Cameroon domains (TLD of .cm) are infested with viruses or other not-so-fun party treats. Given that it's very easy to mis-type .com as .cm, this puts the computers of a lot of fat-fingered typists in peril. Second place on the most-infested domains list goes to China (.cn), while Hong Kong (last year's 'winner') is now comfortably middle-of-the-pack."
Missing keys? (Score:2, Interesting)
POLL: have you ever mistyped .cm for .com? (Score:3, Interesting)
Really? I've never done it. Never. /me goes to point .cm to 127.0.0.1 .
No, I don't think it is (Score:4, Interesting)
Given that it's very easy to mis-type .com as .cm, ...
I can safely say I've never done this. I've made other errors - such as ending up in Estonia's (.ee) web space on occasion, since I work in an electrical engineering department. But I can't believe leaving out the "o" from ".com" is particularly easy or at all common.
Now if you wanted to talk about Colombia (.co) being a frequent typo for .com domains, then I might find it more believable. I have done that on rare occasions.