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PhatBot Trojan Spreading Rapidly On Windows PCs

prostoalex writes "The Washington Post alerts Windows users about a new peer-to-peer backdoor client that is installed maliciously on broadband-connected computers around Asia and the United States. The client is then used for distributed DOS attacks and sending out large amounts of spam. Phatbot, according to government sources, is installed on hundreds of thousands machines already. Phatbot snoops for passwords on infected computers and tries to disable firewall and antivirus software, albeit it is detectable by antivirus packages." An anonymous reader submits a link to this description of the beast.

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  1. OMGLOLWTF?!?!?! YUPO MAD3 TEH SKYN#T JOKE +5FUNAY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  2. And you laughed at us white patriots... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "Wed Mar 17 2004 14:49:40 ET // America in 2050: Whites will be down to half the population /// By 2050 minority groups will make up 49.9 percent of the U.S. population, it will be reported Thursday. Asians and Hispanics will see the most dramatic increases between now and midcentury, cenusus sources explain, ahead of a news release... Filed By Matt Drudge..."

    It's sad to see the greatest race and civilization that ever walked on earth to go down the drain because of nation full of race-traitors.

    1. Re:And you laughed at us white patriots... by zaqattack911 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Uuhh... I think you're on the wrong website.

      AMIGO.

  3. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By 2050, every white person in America will have a personal servent.

    1. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      At the rate this world is going, by 2050, the US will be one giant bread line.

  4. If you see a process sucking tons of memory/cpu... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...you've probably just started a copy of winword.exe and having nothing to worry about.

  5. Albeit is misused here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It should clearly be "although." Drives me crazy when people use the wrong word because they're trying to seem smart. Christ.

  6. Conspiracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now you have the proof of the MS-SCO conspiracy to force people to switch to Linux and pay a 699$ fee.

  7. Re:First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Juuust a bit outside.</Bob Uecker>

  8. Re:Virizzle by TrafficGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    isn't that fiddy cent thats the PIMP? wait maybe fiddy is 'da club'

  9. Re:GNAA FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am writing out of a sense of outrage and frustration at a great injustice that, I believe, threatens the very foundations of these United States of America.

    The injustice is the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Its unintended consequence is the creation of a vast organization that monopolizes the distribution of cocaine. I have been made aware of the Seattle crack "Family" which was able to use its monopoly and the immense resources in manpower and money available to it to illegally surveil me, trespass against my property, physically intimidate and threaten me, try to restrict my freedom of speech, try to poison me, and generally harass me in many other ways. The decisions of the "Family" are not subject to oversight by any publically-elected body. They are able to get away with illegal activity, using their money and their monopoly on crack distribution to keep law enforcement officials at bay.

    I invite you to come to Seattle and see for yourself the open dealing on the streets in Belltown, at the bus stop on 3rd and Pine, both inside and outside Deano's on 23rd and Madison, in the Jinsonia apartments at 8th and Seneca (recently the site of two fires). Check out the ownership of radio station KUBE 93.3 FM. Investigate a rumor I heard that Governor Gary Locke is involved. Consider Officer Slaughter of the East Precinct, who was recently convicted of taking drugs from dealers and giving it to his friends, letting them use drugs in his patrol car. Is it so hard to imagine other policemen taking bribes?

    My motivation in writing this is outrage and disbelief at the impunity with which the crack "Family" violated my constitutionally guaranteed rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, privacy, freedom of speech, freedom from discrimination, freedom from harassment, etc. First, they hooked me on crack; then, they decide to shut me down, cut off my medicine. They have made me angry, and all I can do is try to expose as much of the crack game as I can, in the hope that if it becomes visible enough people will realize how the illegality of crack is causing far more problems for our society than the drug itself, were it legal.

    Repeal the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Take back our country from hardened criminals whose power derives from crack prohibition.

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    Google

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