Bot master owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs

Bot master owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs
Dan Goodin, The Register 2007-11-11

An American computer security consultant on Friday admitted to using massive botnets to illegally install software on at least 250,000 machines and steal the online banking identities of Windows users by eavesdropping on them while they made financial transactions.

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Anonymous (1 replies)

Just the tip of the iceberg I fear. May be time to fire up my linux computer for net use and head off to the bank on friday to do my banking. It's a sad thing that so few affect the lives of so many.

I suggest you install Firefox and Thunderbird after a clean install. Paranoia is the only way.

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