The World's Biggest Botnets

ancientribe writes "There's a new peer-to-peer based botnet emerging that could blow the notorious Storm away in size and sophistication, according to researchers, and it's a direct result of how Storm has changed the botnet game, with more powerful and wily botnets on the horizon. This article provides a peek at the 'new Storm' and reveals the three biggest botnets in the world (including Storm) — and what makes them tick and what they are after."

Comments

Re:Imagine if you will

[Misanthrope]

In Soviet Russia botnets donate cpu time to you.

security through obscurity

[Anonymous Coward]

Well thankfully I run Windows, which is inherently more secure than your "open source" systems. These botnet creators can look right inside your operating systems and see the vulnerabilities, whereas with Windows...

Re:Well....

[Anonymous Coward]

I installed Storm on my computer and I've never been happier. Downloads are quicker, my mortgage has been refinanced, I made a fortune in the stock market, and my cock is 2 inches longer.

excellent botnet-er, would bot again++++!++!

Windows based Super Computers

[flyingfsck]

So the world's largest networked super computer runs Windows. It is sad really, all these hundreds of millions of computers on the planet - half of them sending spam for the other half to filter out. One would think that there should be something slightly more useful for them to do.

Re:Does it run on Windows?

[flyingfsck]

I'd feel a lot safer if you could get selinux to work on Windows...

Re:Does it run on Windows?

[nsanders]

I'd feel a lot better if I could get SELinux to work on Linux..

Windows is winning

[definate]

You see this is exactly why Windows is winning. Linux is still yet to provide a credible botnet to face off against the Windows botnet. There's just no comparison, Windows wins every time!