Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Over a Million Zombie PCs

Posted by Zonk on from the daaaaataaaa dept.

Doyle writes "A BBC article discusses new research revealing that over 1 million computers have been compromised and are being used in bot nets. From the article: 'The largest network spied on by the team was made up of 50,000 hijacked home computers.'"

2 of 564 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why not ISPs by rcamera · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    you see only 3 processes running in windows?impressive considering you will always have a 'system idle process', 'system', 'explorer.exe', and a few 'svchost.exe' - not to mention the fact that 'taskmgr.exe' has to be running in order to see any of this. would you like me to explain the difference between the 'applications' and 'processes' tabs?

    i would argue that you are completely clueless based on your statement.

    --
    Wave upon wave of demented avengers March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
  2. Re:Do NOT clean up Winboxen for free. by DaFrogg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A Mini Mac? Hey, they SAID they weren't heartless bastards! ;)