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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. i use a mac by seann · · Score: 0, Troll

    MAc!

    We're not zombies.

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    I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
  2. Re:Why arent governments proacting agaisnt these n by KarmaMB84 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Way to take it out of context, asshole. :P I don't think the DNS root servers are quite as important as a power grid :P

  3. Re:Must Be M$ Boxes Right ?? by Lussarn · · Score: 1, Troll

    As long as you keep giving Apple money for updates, yes. Remember, OS X from 2001 is not updated even for security issues but windows 98 still is.

    Enough deployment of a non secured OS and it will lead to problems even if it's a Mac. Apple does get away with not securing their old OSes only because they are not widely deployed.

    If I buy a Mac today, who knows if I get updates 3 years from now?