Time for the British government to leave Windows perhaps?
THE UNITED KINGDOM is a target for many scams. Because of its characterisation as a country of generous givers, many requests for donation are also being sent specifically to residents of the UK. This is a well-known fact. It turns out that malicious people are also targeting British residents not just with requests for donations (genuine or fake, e.g. snail mail appeals or E-mail scams) but also with botnets, which of course exploit the many, many vulnerabilities in Windows. One in two Windows machines is believed to be a zombie, but not all of them are actively harvested and their users defrauded.
The botnet appears to be controlling more than 100,000 infected computers, 98% of which are UK Internet users. The criminals have been harvesting all manner of potentially lucrative and revenue-producing credentials - including online account IDs plus login information to banks, credit and debit card numbers, account types plus balances, bank statements, browser cookies, client side certificates, login information for email accounts and social networks and even FTP passwords.