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FBI, Dutch police crack the Shadow botnet
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| In a joint operation, the FBI and the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit have cracked
| the Shadow botnet--thought to contain 100,000 PCs.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-216237.html
"Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time."
--Bill Gates, 2004
"The Internet? We are not interested in it."
--Bill Gates, 1993
"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much
of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny
if it weren't so irritating."
--Bill Gates
Recent:
What is the speed of spam? 7.8 billion messages per hour!
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| Spam volumes have doubled, and the Srizbi botnet alone was seen to be capable
| of pumping out an astonishing 7.8 billion messages an hour. That is probably
| worth repeating: 7.8 BILLION spams every single hour!
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19992/1054/
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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