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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Windows Zombies Get Difficult to Track

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Windows Zombies Get Difficult to Track
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:20:12 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Botnetters unleash mini-swarms

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| It is an open question as to what security pressure is causing this change. 
| Both companies sell software that blocks or detects the attacks through which 
| botnets strike at desktops, by monitoring traffic to and from the network 
| gateway and PC. It is unlikely that smaller botnets would make any difference 
| to this detection method.     
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=10270


Yesterday:

France kicks off nationwide spam fight

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| France is ranked as the 10th worst country for generating spam, according to 
| The Spamhaus Project, which publishes a list that can be used in e-mail 
| servers to block known spamming IP addresses. The U.S. is the worst, followed 
| by China, Russia and the U.K.   
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/100507-france-spam-fight.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news


Related:

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/


Gathering 'Storm' Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets

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| Although it's most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a 
| Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It's also the most successful 
| example we have of a new breed of worm, and I've seen estimates that between 
| 1 million and 50 million computers have been infected worldwide.   
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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/10/securitymatters_1004


Night of the Living Vista

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| Today, I think of Vista as the zombie operating system. It stumbles around, 
| and from a distance you might think it's alive, but close up it's the walking 
| dead.  
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2190228,00.asp


IE6: The zombie browser

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| Paul Graham's much-dissected essay Microsoft is Dead offers some witty and 
| perceptive analysis, but it sidesteps the fact that Microsoft's rotten corpse 
| will take decades to decompose.  
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http://blogs.pathf.com/agileajax/2007/09/ie6-the-zombie-.html

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