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Zombie Report By ISP
twitter writes "Information Week has a summary of a report by Prolexic detailing Zombie activity by ISP, country and population statistics. AOL, the largest provider, had the most zombies but lower rates than others. Fourth largest Earthlink was not in the top 20. The information is gathered from hundreds of customer sites." From the article: "Weinstein went on to say that Prolexic's numbers were actually good news for AOL. 'It's a demonstration that the tools we provide are keeping members safe. Our very aggressive actions -- we provide anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall services to our users -- make them measurably safer than those on other ISPs.'"
How does this get modded interesting?
Interesting to read a arrogant self-absorbed jerk write flamebait.
Nobody wants to be a zombie idiot they do care.
But they are not knowledgeable enough to set their firewall up correctly or install linux.
So they connect and 4 minutes later they are taken over without even knowing it.
They just want to read some e-mail, see pictures of their relatives, maybe check their bank account.
Funny has you get pisted at the users and not the hackers.