____/ Doug Mentohl on Wednesday 24 October 2007 15:59 : \____
> 'Symantec .. successfully tested the exploit against fully patched
> Windows XP-SP2 and Windows 2003-SP1 machines'
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=603
No big deal. Just add some more zombies to the pile. The Net is a mess anyway.
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
How did we end up this way?
"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey."
--Bill Gates
Microsoft Makes Windows Users Lazy
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| In general, if there is someone using Windows 98 or Windows Me, it's going
| to be in this crowd. And if you ask any repair tech if they ever helped an
| AOL user with anything short of malware removal, chances are solid that they
| will be telling you no.
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| Now burn this into your brains: you know all of those bot networks out there
| serving all of that spam? Who do you think makes up a fair percentage of this
| group - novice users like the people I just described.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2601&Itemid=449
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Rid your machine from malware. Install GNU/Linux.
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