Zombie Network Explosion

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 3, 2008 @12:50AM from the want-braaains dept.

anti-globalism writes "The number of compromised zombie PCs in botnet networks has quadrupled over the last three months. Shadowserver tracks botnet activity and the number of command and control servers. It uses a variety of metrics to slice and dice its figures based in part on the entropy of botnet infections. The clear trend within these figures is upwards, with a rise in botnet numbers of 100,000 to 400,000 (if 30 day entropy is factored into equations) or from 20,000 to 60,000 (for five day entropy)."

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Re:I wonder if it had to do with... by Creepy · 2008-09-03 04:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

please don't talk about Vista today - I spent 7 hours with MS tech support last night trying to get SP1 installed on my laptop (taking away time from my virus fight on an XP machine). According to MS support, my registry is corrupt, which is awfully fast, seeing that I just got it back from the repair shop a week ago and they had to wipe my C drive clean and restore to image (suggesting to me that their drive image is corrupt - the repair was for an 8600M graphics card failure). The drive itself reports no errors.