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In case the shills refute the numbers:
One-third of Security Essentials users infected: Microsoft
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| Almost a third of the customers who have
| installed Microsoft's free Security
| Essentials software have been found to be
| suffering from major malware infections.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28745/53/
Giant Zbot Botnet Trying To Trick Microsoft OWA Users
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| Security experts have discovered a massive
| spam campaign going on this week, attempting
| to distribute the password-stealing Zeus
| Trojan application across the internet.
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| The Trojan has reportedly afflicting a large
| number of PCs across the globe and has
| created a massive botnet of zombie machines
| for circulating malicious spam attacks.
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http://www.itproportal.com/security/news/article/2009/10/21/giant-zbot-botnet-trying-trick-microsoft-owa-users/
Related:
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
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
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