CA Warns Of Massive Botnet Attack

m4dm4n wrote to mention a story running on The Register which describes a coordinated malware attack designed to establish a massive botnet. From the article: "The attack involves three different Trojans - Glieder, Fantibag and Mitglieder - in a co-ordinated assault designed to establish a huge botnet under the control of hackers. Computer Associates reckons that access to the compromised PCs is for sale on a black market, at prices as low as five cents per PC."

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Re:This is interesting...

[cnelzie]

Moving to a new platform/OS without knowing all the ins and outs, could be just as dangerous as staying with Windows.

I remember my early days with Linux, back when I used to futz around and actually made my machines less secure, before I learned a great deal more about the OS and its features.

I am not saying that switching is bad, I am just saying that it is important to know what you are switching to before making the switch.

Nobody should get caught with their firewall down holding their LAN cable in their hand...