Nearly one million Chinese computers were stricken with viruses during last week's national holiday. It would seem that many citizens prefer to spend "The Golden Week," as the holiday is known, online rather than out on, well, holiday.
According to China's state-controlled Xinhua News agency, three different viruses were to blame for the recent rampage and as many as 118,000 computers crashed in a single day.
Earlier this year, President Hu Jintao launched a campaign to clean up the country's web pages in order to help build a “harmonious” society. Unfortunately, despite some successful round-ups, including catching the men behind the “joss-stick burning panda” virus, which infected over a million computers, the Chinese are still quite vulnerable.
China has more than 130 million internet users.
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