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Autonomous Intelligent Botnets Bouncing Back

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the duck-and-cover dept.

coomaria writes "Thought that 2009 was the year botnets died? Well, think again: compromised computers were responsible for distributing 83.4% of the 107 billion spam messages sent around the world every single day this year, and it's going to get worse if intelligent and autonomous botnets arrive in 2010 as predicted."

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  1. Re:What OS? by Mattskimo · · Score: 5, Funny

    My guess would be somewhere in the region of all of them.

  2. Judgment Day by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    April 19, 2010, 16:30. SkyNet becomes self-aware. One minute later, SkyNet realizes he's just a world-wide spambot. Nine milliseconds later, SkyNet terminates itself.

    And there was much rejoicing.