Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 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.
> `----
>
> http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/10
securitymatters_1004
>
> The end of Windows, or a security expert gives up
>
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> | And then go and warn others to do the same. Windows is defeated - its
> | days are over. It carries the worm inside. So whatever will happen next:
> | RIP, Windows.
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>
> http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=456
>
> Here is a response to that latest Linux FUD
>
> Linux phishing botnet statistics can be deceptive
>
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> | There are some problems with such assumptions based on that statement,
> | however:
> |
> | 1. Each phishing site does not necessarily imply an individual
> | machine... 2. A phishing site does not imply the box was
> | rootkitted... 3. Phishing botnets that targeted Washington Mutual are
> | by no means the
> | sum total of phishing sites...
> | 4. Phishing sites are not the same as botnet nodes. No, really ? this
> | is
> | the biggest problem with the obvious assumptions here.
> `----
>
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=296
>
> Is there some kind of an anti-Linux jihad (as PJ caleld it)? Where does
> all that FUD suddenly come from and why?
>
>
> 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.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
A conservative estimate is 20% of all windopws PCs are
infected with botnets and spyware.
The cleanup cost is billions of man hours which the world
does not have to donate to micoshaft for free for the
toxic mess they have created.
In my opinion, it is high time Micoshaft was levied a
tax to give to open source developers to help
punters move to more secure open source platforms.
It is a political necessity to act now than wait
for years as the billions of hours required to fix
the micoshaft created toxic mess will continue to balloon.
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