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The Final Virus -- a science-fiction story

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I have written a bit of science fiction "The Final Virus", that points out a dangerous and unfortunately non-fictional problem.

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Void_Main ·
This story looks right on target. The only number that looks a little "off" to me is the amount of SPAM that currently comes from infected Windows SPAM zombies. I did a study for about a month of all SPAM that I received and nearly 100%, if not exactly 100% of the SPAM I received over the study period all came from infected Windows machines. Of course this is only a sample of 1 so take it FWIW. Here is the supporting data that I collected for the number of infected hosts:

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/spam/

The page may take a while to load since as it's pretty large and it's on a slow cable connection.

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