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Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo

Posted by timothy on from the nerd-rage-best-kind-of-rage dept.

WarJolt writes: The plug was pulled on the attempt to crowd-source an Arch Linux install after a botnet threatened to take over the process. Twitch Installs has been rebooted by the twitchintheshell community and Twitch Installs users managed to reinstall Arch only to be thwarted by the botnet. The botnet managed to partially install Gentoo. Users are currently in the process of reinstalling Arch.

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  1. Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 1, Troll

    Numerous friends of mine have been a victim of a similar botnet, the massive WindowsUpdate botnet, that installed Windows 10 on their machines when they were perfectly happy with Windows 7. Luckily you can upgrade back to Windows 7, but its still a worrying development. I've heard that as of early next year, the botnet will get even more aggressive in pushing out its malware.