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Opinion: Botnets must die
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| We already know Microsoft can't fix Windows' security problems. Every month
| brings yet another Patch Tuesday full of fixes for major vulnerabilities, yet
| Microsoft never catches up with Windows' security holes. It never will.
| Windows started out without network security, and every fix since Windows for
| Workgroups has been one patch on top of another, right through to Windows 7.
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| We also know education won't do the job. Anyone with a
| higher-than-room-temperature IQ already has security software and keeps up to
| date with patches. Let's be kind and assume that 90% of the Windows-using
| population does this. That leaves, what, about 100 million Windows PCs in the
| world available for botnet deployment?
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| Yuck! I don't like those odds!
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| No, the only solution is for ISPs to start checking Windows PCs in at the
| Internet gate, and if they don't pass a minimum security check, we don't
| allow them in. If an ISP doesn't join up with this posse, cut it off from the
| rest of the Internet. This really is a case where if you're not part of the
| solution, you're part of the problem.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/342013/Botnets_Must_Die
Good job saying about Windows what many others are reluctant (afraid?) to say.
Dangers of the Microsoft Monoculture
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| Every once in a while, someone might point out that reporters have to
| actively avoid mentioning Microsoft Windows when discussing computer
| problems; but largely â at least ever since Dan Greer lost his job for
| pointing out the danger of a Microsoft Monoculture - there is virtually no
| mention that Microsoft products lie at the root of virtually all security and
| computer-related problems today.
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/08/dangers-of-the-microsoft-monoculture/
Software [In]security: Attack Categories and History Prediction
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1393066&rll=1
Pink Floyd worm spreads on 'Chinese Facebook'
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| The techniques applied by the worm are similar to those of the Mikeyy worms
| that spread rapidly across microblogging site Twitter earlier this year and
| an Orkut worm in 2008. Orkut isn't popular in the US or Europe, but the
| Google-owned social networking site is big in Brazil and up and coming in
| India.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/25/pink_floyd_worm/
Related:
ISPs turn blind eye to million-machine malware monster
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| According to figures from researcher Peter Gutmann, the Storm Worm alone is
| believed to comprise from 1m to 10m CPUs, creating one of the world's most
| powerful computers. Â
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/10/isps_ignore_strorm_worm_and_other_malware/
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