Storm Worm More Powerful Than Top Supercomputers

Stony Stevenson writes to mention that some security researchers are claiming that the Storm Worm has grown so massive that it could rival the world's top supercomputers in terms of raw power. "Sergeant said researchers at MessageLabs see about 2 million different computers in the botnet sending out spam on any given day, and he adds that he estimates the botnet generally is operating at about 10 percent of capacity. 'We've seen spikes where the owner is experimenting with something and those spikes are usually five to 10 times what we normally see,' he said, noting he suspects the botnet could be as large as 50 million computers. 'That means they can turn on the taps whenever they want to.'"

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pay per email

[hesaigo999ca]

If they were to set up the proposed plan of pay per email as before, even being 2 cents an email, and have a commision go to the isp, they have to make moeny for their efforst in trakcing as well, it would not be long before we would see a warning sent to the owner of an infected computer needing to pay for all 1000 emails sent....this would let them know they are infected and be cheaper in the end to get a legit copy of windows...with anti-virus , then to keep paying for the infected emails coming out of their computer. Heck, even cheaper would be to switch to linux

Oh you whinging fanboys!

[Dystopian Rebel]

From TFA:

Microsoft Windows machines that have been compromised by the virulent Storm worm, which has pounded the Internet non-stop for the past three months.

Right, I don't want to hear a word from the venomous cake-holes of you loathsome, spotty, basement-dwelling I-own-a-binary-clock, where's-my-Vorbis-support and I-love-you-bald-Nathalie-Portman Linux fanboys who claim this is an example of Windows vulnerability. Because you know damned well that if Linux and OS X were as popular as Windows, they would have there ~own~ virulent super-computing worms to pound the Internet with!