A computer dystopia where malware rules

Imagine a country where:

-- few people can afford computers and any kind of computer security software is usually beyond their means
-- 80 percent of computers are infected with malware
-- many desperately needed machines are disabled with viruses and in storage
-- Internet connections, which are only dial-up, are so slow that AV updates take all day to download and one web page takes 10 minutes to load
-- most installed operating systems are pirated, never updated and completely vulnerable

It sounds like the setting of a dystopian novel written in Czech about 1920. It isn�t. It�s Ethiopia -- today.

The Guardian of the UK has run a story about the grim world of computing in one country in Africa where most people and organizations are powerless to defend themselves against malware. (Read it here.)

Tom Kelchner