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[News] [Rival] Windows Worms Take Advantage of the Holiday, Make More Zombie PCs

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Windows Worms Take Advantage of the Holiday, Make More Zombie PCs
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:38:34 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Storm Worm delivering coal this Christmas

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| Some anti-virus scanners apparently protect against the worm already, 
| including Kaspersky, eTrust-Vet, Microsoft's OneCare, and Symantec. Updates 
| for the rest will likely be available in short order, but probably not before 
| December 25 has come and gone, thus giving the worm an opportunity to 
| propagate.    
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071225-storm-worm-delivering-coal-this-christmas.html


Related:

Russian malware storm brewing?

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| Chenghuai Lu, a senior threat analyst at the Tokyo-based antivirus vendor, 
| recently uncovered a site with several hundred malicious programs and traced 
| the site's server to a Russian IP address. Among the harbored malware were 
| examples of three Trojan families: Dropper.cko, Clicker.qu and Polycrypt.g. 
| All three clans typically hijack Internet Explorer on compromised PCs and 
| direct users to adult Web sites.     
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=700644396&rid=-50


Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers

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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
|
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202


Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net

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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/


What Is A Botnet?

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| Usually, the zombies in use of a botnet are compromised computers running the 
| Microsoft Windows operating system that have been infected with some sort of 
| malware.  
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http://www.yoursdaily.com/science_tech/what_is_a_botnet

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