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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. Must Be M$ Boxes Right ?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aren't zombies constantly searching for "brains" ?

  2. That's still low... by BeneathTheVeil · · Score: 5, Funny

    compared to the millions of zombies in front of PCs.

    Come to think of it, the two just may be related. :P

  3. Imagine... by RedMage · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 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...)

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  4. I was wondering... by justforaday · · Score: 5, Funny

    This explains why my startup sound suddenly changed into a groaning voice saying "Braiinnnnnssss..."

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  5. Part of the team by dfj225 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm glad to be just part of the team!

    <-[XP]-86840>: This message brought to you by Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.gen

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  6. Re:Why arent governments proacting agaisnt these n by Brad1138 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I get nice little pop ups telling me my computer may be already infected all the time, don't you?

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