Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Storm botnet gets profiled at Web site
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> | "In the last couple of days, it has conducted phishing attacks against
> | Barclays Bank and the Bank of Nova Scotia," Alperovitch says. "It's a
> | fast-flux network with thousands of machines around the world, and it's
> | grown so that it's almost impossible to shut down."
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> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=129413788&rid=-50
>
> Eventually, Windows users just let their computer spew out spam and attack
> (DDOS) Web sites. It's everyone, including Mac and Linux users, that
> deletes spam and takes the toll of the damages.
Banks need to ban PISTA and IE to and issue advisories to customers
they need to switch to freely available Linux before they will
get served. They may as well buy a gOS or EEE computer as well
or an eSys machine from the likes of Tesco and ebuyer.com
or forget about on-line service - go to the counter like the
old fashined way.
http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com
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