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Botnet’s and You: Save the World — Install Linux
What? Give Up My Precious Windows?
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| Fancy yourself a crusader? Think Green all the time? That’s going to help
| with the environment, but do you want to make a real difference in the world
| of computing and the Internet?
|
| Then uninstall Windows and install Linux.
|
| No. Seriously.
|
| Oh you’re probably saying “It’s those silly Linux guys bashing Microsoft
| again”, and normally it’d be true. I’ve been known to tweak the nose of our
| loyal opposition/beloved partner now and then, but this time it’s truly
| different. I recommend people to get off of Consumer Desktop Windows for the
| same reason I also recommend seatbelts and stopping smoking. It’s not IF
| you’ll have a problem, it’s WHEN.
|
| A Little History - What’s a BotNet?
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http://opsamericas.com/?p=646
Spam back on the menu as botnet creating email triples in one week
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| The volume of malicious spam in circulation has more than tripled in a single
| week, and the Srizbi botnet is to blame.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19009/1054/
Trojans infect 2.6 million systems, looking for gamer credentials
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| “After its first day in MSRT, Taterf components had been removed from over
| 700,000 machines! For comparison, Win32/Nuwar (aka ‘Storm worm’) was removed
| from less than half that in its first month.” McCormack said.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19005/1054/
The Internet has become chaos. It's only a matter of time and momentum before
Windows is banned or its use restricted. Banks are already handing out ree
Linux laptops and Live CDs.
Recent:
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
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
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