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New Mega-Botnet Discovered
yahoi writes "According to the DarkReading article, 'Researchers have discovered a major botnet operating out of the Ukraine that has infected 1.9 million machines, including large corporate and government PCs mainly in the US. The botnet, which appears to be larger than the infamous Storm botnet was in its heyday, has infected machines from some 77 government-owned domains — 51 of which are in the US government. Researchers from Finjan who found the botnet say it's controlled by six individuals, and includes machines in major banks.'"
They had switched to Vista like MS was chanting all along they would not have had all thoes security holes in XP... oh wait Linux is what i was thinking of not Vista lol
Mega gets thrown around a lot. Here in Massachusetts, "Megabucks" sometimes has a jackpot of less than $1,000,000.