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America's 10 Most-Wanted Botnets

Posted by timothy on from the lurking-on-your-parents'-desktops dept.

bednarz writes "Network World ranks America's 10 most wanted botnets, based on an estimate by security firm Damballa of botnet size and activity in the United States. The leader is Zeus, with 3.6 million compromised PCs so far. The Zeus Trojan uses key-logging techniques to steal user names, passwords, account numbers and credit card numbers, and it injects fake HTML forms into online banking login pages to steal user data. At the bottom of the list is Conficker, which despite its celebrity status has compromised just 210,000 US computers so far."

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  1. slashbots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm surprised the slashbots aren't on that list. They have the power to take a website offline in mere moments thanks to the power wielded by their evil overlord, CmdrTaco. He simply posts a link to the site he wants removed from the net on the front of his homepage, and the site goes offline.

    1. Re:slashbots by starglider29a · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, but he only wields this power for good.

    2. Re:slashbots by mcrbids · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm surprised the slashbots aren't on that list. They have the power to take a website offline in mere moments thanks to the power wielded by their evil overlord, CmdrTaco. He simply posts a link to the site he wants removed from the net on the front of his homepage, and the site goes offline.

      Thus invoking what has been described as the greatest paradox of all time: Slashdot can remove sites from the Internet by merely posting them, yet it's quite demonstrable that none of the slashbots ever RTFA.

      So where are these mysterious article readers, and where do they come from? I'm waiting for a Scientific Expose on Nova...

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    3. Re:slashbots by Culture20 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Proof that lurkers still outnumber posters. &$#^*ing leaches. They're the reason I can't RTFA. Stop reading and post something!

    4. Re:slashbots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yes, but he only wields this power for good.

      Oh, how quickly they forget.

  2. Is there a reward? by gubers33 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are they wanted Dead or Alive?

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  3. Obligatory Short Circuit quote by megamerican · · Score: 2, Funny

    Number 5: "It's nice to be wanted."

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