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Over a Million Zombie PCs
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.'"
Maybe I should have sent THIS in afterall...
I'm a virgo and on Slashdot. Coincidence? Yes.
Aren't zombies constantly searching for "brains" ?
compared to the millions of zombies in front of PCs.
:P
Come to think of it, the two just may be related.
*Connection Terminated Unexpectedly*
/dev/random
... a Beowulf Cluster of... oh wait...
(Hmm, can zombies be clustered? We all know from Night of the Living Dead that they DO cluster. Quite well, in fact...)
}#q NO CARRIER
I know one thing: There's no way in hell they're ever gonna get passed my *ENLARGE YOUR PENIS* super leet windows 2003 install modded to look like xp *HELP RETRIEVE MY MILLIONS*. I even use IE7 beta, but I'm not scared cause I run McAfee *BUY SLIGHTLY USED PORN AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES* firewall to protect my cable modem network. Let's see 'em try to get into THIS network! HA!
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
This explains why my startup sound suddenly changed into a groaning voice saying "Braiinnnnnssss..."
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
There are blue screen screen savers available that show fake error messages randomly for Linux. "Joe User" should feel right at home.
I'm glad to be just part of the team!
<-[XP]-86840>: This message brought to you by Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.gen
SIGFAULT
I get nice little pop ups telling me my computer may be already infected all the time, don't you?
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
No sane person should connect a critical piece of computer infrastructure ... to the internet.
ROTFL...
Quickly! Disconnect the backbone from the internet! Unplug the DNS root servers! Take the routers offline! Cut the cables leading into Mae East! The internet is too dangerous!!!
Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
But it IS Microsoft's fucking fault! Microsoft has ultimate control over almost every users' system... and almost ever users' system eventually gets compromised.
Microsoft's browser that gives developers every last inch of control over a user's PC is what inevitably led to developers just completely taking over users' PCs. Microsoft insists on certain features in Internet Explorer that make it a pain for even the smartest PC users to control what they see.
Here's some problems with IE:
- no real ability to disable popups (Completely disallowing all forms of popups is more secure and convenient for the USER. Fuck developers.)
- Install on demand (What a fucking trainwreck feature this is. Developer puts the 'yes' button behind the 'close' button nested 8 popups under the first one. User gets frustrated and clicks 7 close buttons and 1 button marked 'fuck me in the ass please')
- Patch-and-fix attitude.. It's somehow not Microsoft's fault if they allow 'get into my PC free' for two months if they eventually release a patch for it?
Here's how you fix Internet Explorer:
- get rid of 'install on demand' (Make it so users have to actively download and install what they want installed. This whole 'make things easier for flash to install itself and bombard you with ads' is stupid.
- SUE MICROSOFT. That's right. Consumer class-action large-scale - the type of lawsuit that puts them in the red for a quarter. How many billions has this cost Joe Consumer?
"Just remember that it is also the responsibility of the computer users to patch their systems in a timely manner as soon as they are available."
What if my computer is already fucked up, assface?
Ya, I'm pissed. I'm not an idiot computer user - I spend 8 hours a day on a computer. Yet, while typing this, I got a goddamn a.tribalfusion.bullshit popunder sitting there on my taskbar... and this is while I'm running a proxy filter, run Spybot, run Ad Aware.. And, if I'm having problems like this, Joe Consumer is getting raped.
Ya, you can call me stupid and say I browse the Internet wrong or whatever shit like that. But, this shit never happened back when Netscape was the dominant browser and it did not allow the developer to ad 'features' that work much like a virus.
These zombie PCs ARE by and large Microsoft's fault. Microsoft needs to implement features with the idea that developers will EXPLOIT at every turn possible for money and they need to focus on the consumer, for once. You can't tell me that Microsot doesn't know that Joe Consumer does not want 8 popups while browsing Slashdot.org.
BTW, if anyone has an easy, one-click fix for all the problems I have browsing (that is made by Microsoft, built-in to Internet Explorer), I will print out this post and EAT IT.
--- We need more Ron Paul!
Perhaps all these Zombie comps should be put to good use. Who cares if people don't want to participate in grid computing ... they can be forced!
Bill Gates is using a robot net in building a spacecraft to return to his solar system.
Help end the use of Sigs. Tomorrow
And people say that the largest computer cluster in the world runs Linux. Bah!
Of course it runs Windows! Go Microsoft!
*ugh*
"Where are we going?"
"Planet Ten!"
"When?"
"Real soon!"
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
So I clicked on the Dark Mailer ad, thinking it'd be good for charging them some ad money, and was amused instead:
If you have installed a cracked version on your computer by mistake, we suggest you format your hard drive and reinstall Windows. Delete the cracked version and download Dark Mailer from this site.
Beware teh cracked SPAM software!
The Internet is much too important to be connected to the Internet.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Don't tell my wife or my girlfriend.
Remember, Linux is is the Insecure OS, not WIndows! http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/16/ 1517207&tid=163&tid=1&tid=218
Do not clean up these boxes. Disconnect them from net and tell the relative in question to either PAY for the cleanup, get someone else to clean it, or get a Mac.
Dude you want me to charge my Mom? Should I tell my 60 year old mom "PAY UP WITH THAT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK MONEY BITCH"? Sorry I am not a heartless bastard.
Have your machine intentionally be part of the "zombies", and you get all the goodies, and look like a victim at the same time.
Damn... you've just uncovered the one thing that could possibly draw Linux and MacOS users back to Windows.
LilMikey.com... I'll stop doing it when you sto