Nearly a Quarter Million PCs Turned Into 'Zombies'
The poll of countries who show the most infected is rather interesting....China I can believe,but the US second???
I am sure the ratio of PC user's is greater in both countries, but well, it is a sore point....
What does this say about home users and their PC's......don't care???
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New research indicates that more than 200,000 computers were commandeered and turned into "zombies" each day last month, and that the amount of virus messaging on the Internet Get Linux or Windows Managed Hosting Services with Industry Leading Fanatical Support. has increased by 50 percent during the last two months.
Experts tell TechNewsWorld that over the last six months, CipherTrust's "global threat correlation engine" had been identifying an average of 170,000 new infected zombie computers each day.
Technews
Well at least it keeps a lot of people employed, cleaning these up...... :cool:
It is not a matter of not caring.
The majority of computers that I "fix" that have been exploited are from people who still use dial-up. And the reason their computers are not patched? It takes them [gloworange]forever[/gloworange] to download the patches. My clients with high speed connections have been educated enough and can do automatic updates with out a problem. Dial-up? Just staying connected to obtain the complete fix can be challenging enough.
I believe most software companies are a bit arrogant. Produce software, indemnify themselves with the EULA, then make it so that you need to expend resources for protection. If that is not a racket, what is?
Adding insult to injury, some companies still charge you for fixing their flaws whether it be through "subscription services" or "Maint. Contracts." Let's not even talk about upgrades - "That will be fixed in the next release."
Will the major backbones do anything about zombies or botnets? Probably not because they make money by bandwidth usage.
Again the solution is left with end-user education and support. They call that job security but I think I could be a little less secure. :D