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Call to banish virus-hit computers from internet
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| COMPUTERS infected with viruses could be "expelled" from the internet under
| a new industry code to control Australia's plague of contaminated PCs.
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| The federal government has given the internet industry an
| operate-or-legislate ultimatum to identify "zombie" computers
| involved in cyber-crime.
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| The Internet Industry Association - whose members include major
| internet service providers Optus, Telstra, Vodafone, AAPT, Virgin
| and Hutchison 3G, as well as industry giants Facebook, Google and
| Microsoft - is preparing a voluntary industry code to come into
| force this year.
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| The move follows industry intelligence that Australia now hosts
| the world's third-highest number of "zombie" computers infected
| with malicious software that can attack other PCs, send spam,
| store child pornography or steal the user's identity.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/call-to-cut-net-link-on-virus-hit-computers/story-e6frg6n6-1225823060022
Australian ISPs To Disconnect Botnet "Zombies"
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/25/1458231/Australian-ISPs-To-Disconnect-Botnet-Zombies
Beware the Botnets
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| I caught up recently with Roland Dobbins, a
| solutions architect with the Asia Pacific
| division of Arbor Networks, a company that
| specializes in helping customers defend
| against botnet attacks. Dobbins said the
| Google incident a perfect example of how the
| botnet has enabled what he calls the
| democratization of espionage.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/187532/beware_the_botnets.html?tk=rss_news
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
100 e-mail bouncebacks? You've been backscattered.
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| The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every
| hour. The subject lines are disquieting: "Cyails, Vygara nad
| Levytar," "UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you."
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| You eye your computer screen; you're nervous. What's going on ? Have you been
| hacked? Are you some kind of zombie botnet spammer?
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1698505531&rid=-50
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