I work for a research institute at a major university in the USA and can confirm the pervasive nature of this situation. I have seen symptoms of this malicious code at work on WinXP PCs, Macs, and linux PCs. We have a number of computational grids (clusters) and servers, but I do not administrate those and cannot make a comment on them. However, I do agree and can confirm the conspiratorial nature behind this situation and that it is linked to a network of very powerful occultic groups. It is a very pervasive situation, at least at our institution, and I suspect at many other public/federal facilities as well. Obvioulsy, a malicious informatics situation like this must be administrated and the pertinent information processed by an organized group of indivuals. Surely the information generated from literally thousands of desktop systems (our university has >7,000 employees) must be copius and I would guess that automation technology using database mining applications are employed. Further, a corrupt personnel infrastructure (network services, system admins, etc) is key as well. In fact, in our situation, I can confirm this. The whole thing looks pretty bleak to me unless someone can come up with an IPS to combat the problem. However, the physical access capabilities to employees systems that these people employ through various "power channels" will always remain a difficult situation to deal with.

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