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I'm not too concerned about it...yet. China probably has a million people working on intelligence gathering just inside their country and they have to keep them all busy. I'm sure these attempted hacker attacks are automated and run by computer programs, otherwise they would never hit my PC here in Phoenix, AZ so frequently. They're probably just sweeping throught he whole internet with computer software and researching the "security topography", if you will.

But if everybody uses good security software and firewalls then there isn't much China can do to us other than write new viruses to attack compupters throughout the world. But I would think it's difficult to write a virus that specifically attacks just the US or just the US and NATO. Viruses go everywhere now and would even return and attack computers in China.

I've come to the conclusion that you have to have a very trusting nature and an appreciable amount of computer illiteracy in order to fall victim to a computer virus. I never have. Social engineering attacks take longer than stack smashing/etc, but there's no way for the computer to stop them if the person using the computer is a schmuck. If there's one thing that can bring Windows to its knees, it's an anti-virus program combined with all those other wunnerful freebie ad-ware programs that you can run in the background.

But I would think it's difficult to write a virus that specifically attacks just the US or just the US and NATO. Viruses go everywhere now and would even return and attack computers in China.

I disagree. Viruses probably are introduced from public parts of the Internet (one would hope), but it probably isn't that difficult to make a virus home in on IP addresses for government/military sites. I think it's already been tried by now and found wanting for the most part. At least as a way of knocking out US/NATO computer networks. Spying is another matter.