eweek.com — "Eric Sites stares at the screen of a "dirty box," a Windows machine infected with the self-replicating Wootbot network worm. Within seconds, there is a significant spike in CPU usage as the infected computer starts scanning the network, looking for vulnerable hosts. Basically, this machine is now owned by a criminal."
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pjbonovoxOct 21, 2006
"According to statistics released by Symantec, an average of 57,000 active bots was observed per day over the first six months of 2006."...and according to Kaspersky and AVG, 230000 bots were found on the same test subjects.Like 'Semen'-tech should be issuing statistics when their software can't even detect some current viruses...
hobgobblerOct 21, 2006
My computer is a gangster. cool
markus123Oct 21, 2006
As far as I know, all of them are Windows, why would somebody waste there time writing an extra bot (well, more then 1 extra, OSX/BSD/Linux variants) to target about 3% of the market share of operating systems.Not to mention the fact that quite a majority of these ?botnet owners? do it for profit by automating installation of pay-per-install adware/spyware which, of course, don?t have none-windows versions available.
Closed AccountOct 21, 2006
@markusf**k your job! Pay my bandwidth bill for your infected piece of crap spamming my site and you'll need two jobs!
pileOct 21, 2006
I know what you mean... I wish AVG would automatically remove Quicktime when it discovers it on a PC.
Closed AccountOct 21, 2006
I dabled in the bot game for a while and honestly getting passed the latest norton/mcaffee update was usually as easy as changing a simple variable name. Sounds dumb I know, but it always worked.
luckyabaOct 21, 2006
LOL!! You try and talk major companies into losing billions of dollars and when they say YES. I will still say NO. I need my daily fix.