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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 18 November 2008 12:53 : \____
>> 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.
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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> "A computer on every desk, all running Microsoft software."
"A computer on every desk, all run by crooks."
In today's news:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/18/london_hospital_malware_shutdown/PC
virus forces three London hospitals into computer shutdown
"Three London Hospitals shut down their computer systems on Tuesday in response
to a computer virus infection.
[...]
"The infection at Barts and London Trust was reportedly caused by the Mytob
worm, which contains built-in spyware functionality. Mytob spreads by email
and has the ability to plant backdoor software on compromised Windows PCs."
Wait until the NHS databases make it into bittorrent. How many people died
because of this Microsoft 'incident'? It's not the first of this kind.
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