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Re: BBC and the W botnet ..

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____/ Doug Mentohl on Sunday 15 March 2009 15:30 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> "If you want to read the BBC's side of the story it is here:
> 
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/03/click_botnet_experiment.html "
> 
> 'For a short time in February, I had complete control over 21,696
> personal computers around the world. These were machines whose owners
> had not taken the basic security precautions necessary to stay safe online'
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7938201.stm

How many of these people detected intrusion and frantically deleted the
disk/couldn't sleep at night/brought it in for inspection/wasted CPU cycles
($$) on some hostile infiltrator/other?

- -- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

"The government is not trying to destroy Microsoft, it’s simply seeking to
compel Microsoft to obey the law. It’s quite revealing that Mr. Gates equates
the two."
                --Government official
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