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:SETI

[Crimson Dragon]

SETI engages in seeking distributed computing power through legitimate means..... to endorse this would undermine the purpose of SETI in the first place.

To condone users' computers being used for someone else's profit without their knowledge is a vicious form of exploitation.