Stop the bots

Stop the bots
Kelly Martin, 2006-04-18

Botnets are a major source of evil on the Internet, from spam, phishing attacks, virus propagation and denial-of-service attacks to the stealing of financial information and other illegal activity. Does disbanding them raise legal and ethical implications?

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"Source" of evil? 2006-04-18
Matthew Murphy (1 replies)

Don't use Microsoft Windows 2006-04-20
Anonymous (3 replies)

Re: Don't use Microsoft Windows 2006-04-21
Kelly Martin

Re: Don't use Microsoft Windows 2007-02-27
YL

The reason why windows has been targeted by most viruses is because the majority of the world runs on windows, therefore more hackers will focus their attention only on windows systems. Because more prey will fell for it if it succeeds. If people gradually replace their windows with macs, hackers will then focus more on macs, same thing. Just because Apple is jealous of the prevalence of windows and that no hackers give a shit about hacking macs, the "10000 viruses? Not on a mac" quote is completely bullshit.

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Re: Don't use Microsoft Windows 2008-04-08
Anonymous

Stop the bots 2006-04-18
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Re: Stop the bots 2006-04-18
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Re: Stop the bots 2006-04-19
Matthew Murphy

Re: Stop the bots 2006-04-23
Anonymous

Terminator 2006-04-18
Martin Burke (1 replies)

Re: Terminator 2006-04-19
ultravioletu

We owe a debt of gratitude to Microsoft ! 2006-04-19
Dom De Vitto (dom@devitto.com) (1 replies)