Thousands of zombie PCs created daily
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The rate at which personal computers are being hijacked by hackers rocketed in the first half of 2004, reveals a new report. An average of 30,000 computers per day were turned into enslaved âzombiesâ, compared with just 2000 per day in 2003.
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BASE thinking Trend Micro has declared war on botnets, opening a zombie PC pest control service for ISPs and other big network providers.â¦
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Can a computer program generate new works from long dead legends? By Douglas McGray from Wired magazine.
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Have adware and spyware commandeered your computer? An extreme solution: erasing your hard drive and starting over.
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Infected computers can be used as &quot;zombies&quot; to send spam or launch attacks on Web sites. Spreading Trojans via chat rooms is not unusual.
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Each skinny server houses eight processors. Plug a few together, and voila! A high-performance machine.
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Pipeline A new worm spreading over AOL Instant Messenger seeks to built a botnet of zombie Windows PCs. The Pipeline worm packs an executable file disguised as a JPEG, which if executed, tries to download other strains of malware rootkits and Trojans. Pipeline uses the AIM Buddy List on infected computers to target other prospective marks.â¦
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As infected images plant back doors on PCs, experts see possibility of virus too.
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For weeks now, bits and pieces of Valve Software&#39;s &quot;Half-Life 2,&quot; one of the year&#39;s most hotly anticipated computer games, have been trickling onto nearly 2 million computers around the world.
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A rootkit based on proof-of-concept code presented at 2005's Black Hat conference is currently infecting thousands of Windows-based PCs, and researchers say it's a remarkably sophisticated -- and hard-to-eradicate -- infection.
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I was a teenage zombie master A young hacker accused of helping to corral more than 400,000 computers into a money-making botnet has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in connection with the scheme, which he admits damaged US military computers.â¦
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The grid is made up of over 6,000 machines, with over 1,000 in the UK alone, in 78 countries as part of the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) - the world&#39;s largest and first permanent grid, destined to carry out research into particle physics.
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Microsoft indicated that the defendants used compromised computers around the world, using so-called zombie computers. By Thomas Claburn.
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Several major websites are brought down by the largest denial-of-service attacks ever staged. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Malware researchers have uncovered 'massive growth' in the number of PCs harboring silent rootkit infections.
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The FBI is stepping up its fight against hijacked home computers known as zombies or bots.
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Unsuspecting residents are lured in by shiny, foreign objects that unleash a self-replicating worm and bring the virtual world to a grinding halt. In Game|Life.