Zombie Network Explosion

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)."

Comments

Re:Easy

[Anders]

Won't help, you will be found, in a week we are launching a satelite that has 41 centimeter resolution.

Wow, now they can see my penis from space!

Not really

[WindBourne]

THere is only one possible explanation; Vista is making inroads, and the botmasters have new openings on it. No other system is growing that fast (vista is being forced onto new systems by MS). And if it was an old base of some system (say XP), then it would grow MUCH MUCH faster.

Re:I wonder if it had to do with...

[dedazo]

No. Of course Slashdot only posts the sensationalist bullshit to sell ads, not the subsequent rebuttals.

Keep getting your Microsoft news from Slashdot though, nothing better than shaping your opinions through sponsored FUD.