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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.'"

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  1. Re:In the end people just won't bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You raise some valid points; but your lack of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar tends to give lie to the statement that you are an "IT professional!".

    I pity your employer.

    PS: You were "educated" in a government-run facility, weren't you?

  2. Re:Will never stop unless.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'll tell you how, wipe the fucking HD, then I think they get the point that they been hit with a virus. Then they'll DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO AVOID THAT AGAIN when they lose all of their pics and other shit. You know these fuckers (joe users) don't back up. Nail'm bad and they'll get the point!!!

  3. 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.

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  4. Re:Do NOT clean up Winboxen for free. by DaFrogg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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