Check out this piece over at ITWeek. I offer up a few thoughts on the current craze for Chinese Adware and Malware - more and more, this stuff is starting to spread outside the confines of China itself and out into the West. There's a near limitless supply of these infections at the moment, and while a lot of it is throwaway rubbish (or older, rehashed files) some of the more advanced specimens are doing pretty clever things and proving extremely hard to remove in the process....
China: The Dragon Roars
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