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Researchers Infiltrate and 'Pollute' Storm Botnet
ancientribe writes "Dark Reading reports that a group of European researchers has found a way to disrupt the massive Storm botnet by infiltrating it and injecting "polluted" content into it to disrupt communication among the bots and their controlling hosts. Other researchers have historically shied way from this controversial method because they don't "want to mess with other peoples' PCs by injecting commands," said one botnet expert quoted in the article.
Actually, it would be better to wipe their hard drive clean since then they would be directly impacted and see the loss caused by their stupidity. I already heard from users: yeah, I know I have a virus/trojan but it doesn't really do anything bad to my computer and that virus scanner makes my computer slower so I'll leave it there.
Also, it would give us geeks some extra income and we would have the opportunity to load Ubuntu on their machines.
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How's that?
That's got to be some sort of record...
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Since your /. ID is under the millions, and you aren't new here, then you should know that nobody on /. Reads The Fucking Articles.