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How To Avoid a Botnet Infection?
Taco Cowboy writes "Two of the networks in the company I work for have been zombified by different botnets. They are taken off the grid as we speak. We thought we had taken precautions against infection, such as firewall and anti-viral programs, but for some reasons we have failed. Is there any list of precautionary steps available?" I'd suggest port blocking 80 for any computer that is detected running a web browser, but that might prevent some percentage of legitimate work.
He is either stupid or just trolling. Newer Windows are just as secure as Linux/BSD. It's the users who are dumb and as a mainstream OS and the one that everyone uses, there's going to be idiots.
To see how clueless people actually are, see comments on this article. People were googling for "facebook login" and suddenly that page jumped on top of results.
That old "Market share" lie again. I'd ask for proof, but how do you prove a negative? Phhht. I'd love to slap the first person who pulled that sorry excuse out of their ass. That turd doesn't stop stinking with time, either.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Here is the real problem: you are a coder and you know nothing about security!