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Twitter Koobface infections rocket skyward

21 July 2009
We have a lift off!

One week after we reported Koobface hitting Twitter and microblogging system's vain attempts of purging the affected accounts, our stats show that the worm continues to spread at a high pace.

This means at least three things:

a) Some of the Twitter users don't pay too much attention to what they click.

b) Some of the Twitter users aren't too concerned about security.

c) Some of the Twitter users don't have a reliable/updated antimalware solution on their systems.

Percentile growth of infections in July 13-19 (compared to July 06-12)

 

Country

Percentage

France

371.21

Belgium

346.15

Canada

273.81

Portugal

251.52

Italy

244.19

Germany

210.81

United Kingdom

198.31

Australia

138.33

United States

113.78

South Africa

61.54

 





By Razvan Livintz
Balancing the keen and until late in night reading, with Internet "addiction", the genuine zeal for my bright and fervid students with the craze for the latest discoveries in science and technology, I also enjoy taking not very usual ...

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Comments:

Bengizmo said on Jul-22-2009 18:04

The top three are often rated as the nicest countries in the world, but really are the most naive. I am a Canadian and can attest to the fact that most Canadians are dumb.
I do tech support.
Telling my fellow Canadians that their computer has an "on" button makes their day.

LANGDON said on Oct-4-2011 18:46

Mostly game users ignore the fact that the game issues can be related to your internal Windows settings. For

instance, the corrupted registry keys created by the game may not only cause it to crash but also cause it to run

extremely slow with frequent lags. In such a case you should try running a perfect Registry Cleaner and PC Optimizer

software.

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