'Indestructible' botnet snares 4.5 million computers.

[Geek-9pm]

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The story is now ten days old. My PC still works. Yours?

By Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent
7:00AM BST 01 Jul 2011
The botnet, called TDL-4, is being expanded via rogue websites that offer pornography, pirated content, and file storage.

The website operators recieve between $20 and $200 from the criminals behind TDL-4 for every 1,000 new machines they infect according to Kaspersky Labs. The botnet exploits Windows vulnerabilites including one first discovered last year following the Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran's nuclear programme.  ...
 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8609309/Indestructible-botnet-snares-4.5-million-computers.html

[Transfusion]

Might well be the CIA in disguise, who knows?

[patio]

The story is now ten days old. My PC still works. Yours?

That's how botnets  work...they're not designed to crash a system or bring yours to your knees...that would defeat the whole purpose...
They're designed to work in the background on unsuspecting machines to accomplish their nefarious deeds...

[BC_Programmer]

Is this true? Judge for yourself.
The story is now ten days old. My PC still works. Yours?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8609309/Indestructible-botnet-snares-4.5-million-computers.html

[patio]

           

[JJ 3000]

[BC_Programmer]

JJ that's not a facepalm, that's a "ahh that quote is as sharp as a Oscar Wilde quote written on a piece of paper, rolled into a cone, dipped into lemon juice and poked into somebody's eye"-palm

[reddevilggg]

Might well be the CIA in disguise, who knows?

....and now theres 2 of them