Hi malware fighters,
Do not trust all government machines, thousands of them have been turned into zombie machines, that are part of criminal botnets.
Read: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=TB3IKXZGKRZLSQSNDLPCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=193104896
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Trend Micro is researching how PCs, including computers in defense agencies, are infected with software that can be used to mine confidential data, send spam, or launch denial-of-service attacks. But government IT managers challenge those findings, and Trend Micro is backing down on some.
Craig Sprosts, a senior product manager at IronPort, notes that the percentage of spam coming from government accounts is minor—1% to 2% of the overall problem
Sometimes the Headline doesn’t tell the whole story… 