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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Bot master owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs 2007-11-11
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Re: Bot master owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs 2008-04-09
Purple_Potato

Actually, your best options according to Norton's Internet Security Report (http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/white_papers/b-whitepaper_internet_security_threat_report_xiii_04-2008.en-us.pdf),

is to use Opera or an even more obscure browser, which in total have had faster patching time for exploits, as well as about 1/10th the exploits of IE, and EVEN MOZILLA!!

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