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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.'"
MAc!
We're not zombies.
I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
Who do I have to lick to get a Beowulf cluster of these?
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
...that stupid people should not be aload to have an internet connection...
M$ it's whats for diner!!!!!
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?
...If Joe User were required to start by using Linux or BSD...
He/she'd throw the whole #$*&^ computer into the nearest trash can because they would not be able to do anything with it and go back to paper and pencil and just maybe a simple calculator. A tool that is too hard to use is worse than no tool at all. Just forget about trying to do the job the tool is SUPPOSED to do. People lived just fine thank you before computers were invented. The reason there are so many windows computers as compared to Linux or other geeky systems is that despite all their flaws, ordinary users can get some work done with Windows. I wonder how many Macs are among the million or so zombie computers?
All theory is gray