Russian malware storm brewing?
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| Chenghuai Lu, a senior threat analyst at the Tokyo-based antivirus vendor,
| recently uncovered a site with several hundred malicious programs and traced
| the site's server to a Russian IP address. Among the harbored malware were
| examples of three Trojan families: Dropper.cko, Clicker.qu and Polycrypt.g.
| All three clans typically hijack Internet Explorer on compromised PCs and
| direct users to adult Web sites.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=700644396&rid=-50
Related:
Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
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| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
What Is A Botnet?
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| Usually, the zombies in use of a botnet are compromised computers running the
| Microsoft Windows operating system that have been infected with some sort of
| malware.
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http://www.yoursdaily.com/science_tech/what_is_a_botnet
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