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Zombie Networks On The Rise

Posted by Hemos on from the that-might-be-high-but-still dept.

A reader writes " According to Symantec via the BBC online, Zombie PC nets are growing very fast. Of course, it should also note that Symantec may want those numbers to be as scary as possible. " ITMJ is part of OSTG, like Slashdot. There's also a NY Times story on the article as well.

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  1. Re:This is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    How many non-words can one person use in a post?

    "virii" and "boxen"? DISGUSTING. Go kill yourself.

  2. Vote early, vote often... by Deep+Fried+Geekboy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't Diebold machines run Windows? Woohoo!

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    1. Re:Vote early, vote often... by agentforsythe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Gmail invites available for needy cases

      Yes please.

  3. Saddam on a leash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd like to see Joan of Bark (as I like to think of a certain someone in a picture I saw) walking Saddam on a leash through the streets with a plate of freedom fries on his back. He could tour the world with Joan of Bark and together they could share freedom fries with everyone!

    Joan of Bark, pray for us.

  4. gmail invite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-2afe88f04-64de7591 d4-4305dfb23d

  5. what a mess by OklaKid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i went to my girlfriends house for the weekend, and her neighbor asked me to look at her computer, she has a pirated copy of XP pro on cable broadband, she says not to go to windows update (cause its pirated) but she fears it has a virus or something, and she gets lots of popups from that windows messaging, so i go to housecall on it and let it scan, and grc to run decombobulator, shoot the messenger, and plug & pray, i probably could have done more but i did not want to spend the weekend explaining the virtues of secure computing to a ditzy neighbor chic, besides my beer was back at my g/f house and i rather be smooching with my g/f and drinking cold beer than fiddling with a buggy windoze box (not my problem) and now that i reflect on it i wonder how many more unsecured windows machines are there on broadband possibly trojaned, keystroke logger (ID theft?), virus', worm, spambot & zombie...

  6. Re:Is there any way... by airjrdn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's a new way of thinking.

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  7. They re joking whit ya.... by LoganGD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "The key challenge for Microsoft is not XP users," said Mr Beighton, "it's the Windows 98 and 95 machines." "Getting those people to upgrade and improve their security is going to make the difference," So sad, kind of a white conspirancy. More sad, everybody that is on computers knows that.

  8. Re:Zombies at the gate by BlurredOne · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is one of those times that I would like to have some metamod points to distribute. Whoever thought that this thread needed to be modded offtopic must be smoking something funky, or having a really bad day...

  9. networks? by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, I know, enough zombie jokes ...

    But I'm picturing an Orkut or Friendster or other lame "social network" ... would the users have fake pictures that make them look worse and more decayed, rather than better (unlike their living counterparts)?

  10. LOL by sootman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "ITMJ is part of OSTG, like Slashdot."

    LOLOMGWFT

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