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Another reason to dislike malware writers
Fair enough there are precious few reasons to like them as it is, but as the McAfee Avert Labs points out, they may also be making a substantial contribution to global warming.
While I hope no one is printing spam out and wasting paper, the load placed on the internet in general sending and blocking spam uses a considerable amount of energy. In fact the writer even suggests that the amount of energy wasted by home computers infected by the most recent Storm outbreak would power his house for 8 years. And that's without considering the load on ISP servers and the like.
There's not much we can do about the writers themselves, but keeping a computer clean of viruses and the like is not just for personal benefit, but everyone's.
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