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Deconstructing a Pump-and-Dump Spam Botnet
Behind the Front writes "eWeek has teamed up with Joe Stewart, a senior security researcher at SecureWorks in Atlanta, to show the inner working of a massive botnet that is responsible for the recent surge of 'pump and dump' spam. It's a detailed picture of how these sleazy operations work and why they're so hard to shut down. Sobering numbers: 70,000 infected machines capable of pumping out a billion messages a day, virtually all of them for penis enlargement and stock scams. Excellent graphics, too, including one chart that shows that Windows XP Service Pack 2 is hosting nearly half the attacked machines."
Why can't we organise a class action against Microsoft? It is their shitty code that is responsible for most of this... their shitty code and really poorly thought out security measures.
Then we should go after some of the large ISP who hide their brains in the sand (shit anyone) and pretend they do not know certain customer's machines are spewing night and day.
Isn't it obvious all this stuff's coming from win32? Trojan-Proxy.Win32, Trojan-Downloader.Win32 - why don't they just chuck all the Windows users out?
ResidntGeek
This is such an important news for Windows users, at least tell something abou thow to verify if a particular windows machine is having this problem.
It is. Get rid of it and buy a Mac. HAND.
Pssst... some of us unamerican folks actually cycle on a daily basis. Imagine that! Could you believe that in many european cities cycling is the default means of transportation, and there are ZERO gigantic SUVs?
The shock, the horror!
Are these the statistics for SCO's stock?