Zombie Armies Attack British PCs

Iria · Sep 19, 2005, 09:06 PM

The rapid growth of broadband has led to an unintended consequence in the U.K.: a swelling in the ranks of the country's botnet armies. During the first half of 2005, nearly a third of the world's bot-infected computers, called "zombies," were located in the U.K., according to security product vendor Symantec.

Symantec estimates that between 1 million and 2 million computers worldwide are infected with this bot software, which allows a system to be surreptitiously remote-controlled by hackers, said Dean Turner, senior manager of the Symantec Security Response team.
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Logla · Sep 19, 2005, 10:19 PM

And I know exactly why this happens, not enough people understand their computers. They amount of machines I've had to rebuild over the last year which have been infected with spyware, virii etc in unreal.

The ISPs are partly to blame as well. My ISP is the only one I've ever known to actually contact the customer to let them know that a machine on their ip address is sending out a lot of email traffic and ask the customer to do something about it.

Sep 19, 2005, 09:06 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Zombie Armies Attack British PCs The rapid growth of broadband has led to an unintended consequence in the U.K.: a swelling in the ranks of the country's botnet armies. During the first half of 2005, nearly a third of the world's bot-infected computers, called "zombies," were located in the U.K., according to security product vendor Symantec. Symantec estimates that between 1 million and 2 million computers worldwide are infected with this bot software, which allows a system to be surreptitiously remote-controlled by hackers, said Dean Turner, senior manager of the Symantec Security Response team. ___________ Read More / Source: PC World

Sep 19, 2005, 10:19 PM	#2
Logla HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,311 Rep Power: 0	And I know exactly why this happens, not enough people understand their computers. They amount of machines I've had to rebuild over the last year which have been infected with spyware, virii etc in unreal. The ISPs are partly to blame as well. My ISP is the only one I've ever known to actually contact the customer to let them know that a machine on their ip address is sending out a lot of email traffic and ask the customer to do something about it.