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About a half-million computers worldwide are estimated to be infected, and disconcertingly that number is accelerating, not slowing, as those who run these underground zombie networks seem to be consolidating their forces for greater harm. Computers are typically infected through browser exploits, such as the one recently uncovered in Google's Chrome. But the number one way many computers are infiltrated remains human gullibility -- hackers still do their best work when they trick people to download software they think is one thing but is actually something bogus.
Your best defense is to simply be careful where you surf and what you download -- and, of course, to install a virus scanner. [Source: BBC News]
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Subscribe to commentsBenjamin WrightSep 4th 2008 11:04AM
A hacker who propogates zombies is persuing a dangerous line of work. Yes, it is possible to infect many machines. But in this Age of Information, technology makes infinite records about the hacker, his identity and his location. Those records can trace back like footprints to the criminal. Law enforcement is not powerless here. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/people-in-authority-sometimes-abuse.html
keithSep 14th 2008 1:03AM
As far as spyware and virus attacks go. Lets just say all of these attacks are illusions made by certain people out to hustle money and take advantage from certain companies. Now the person is not the average person however.
How a virus works...
Lets say its all about the person who wishes to make 100,000 a year. phycology is a main factor why they believe they earned the right to do this. This is what the tech and marketer in America wishes to make. So how would they make it after the crash that happened after 2000.
MMM
FIRST YOU GO TO A BIG COMPANY LETS SAY E harmony. You offer to advertise the company on google or similar for 10,000
The company gives that person 10,000 for the advertisement but little to they know the true strategy's to advertise.
8 out of 10 people today are the average every day worker who does not know a damn about being a geek in computer repair. ,
8 out of 10 people today download music from limewire, myspace, Aim and actually think its ok.
So what does the crooked marketer or tech do. Install a virus and integrate the advertisers website add along with porn in the virus or trojan.
Then the crooked
marketer puts the virus or trojan on limewire or any psp and renames it something adult or illegal music.
Now here is where the fun begins. The average every day person who downloads these files indirectly receives the trogan and sees the advertiser along with the porn. Now that person thinks the trojan came from porn when actually it was from the marketers add . Most viruses come from America also.
The truth is , the marketer or Tech have designed a way to take advantage of a big company and make an illusion that the hits on their web site is from legitimate advertisements.
They are not.
This is a hint why this is too big to stop the crooks who are the ones who run the Internet.
Most trogans come from status A Ips who are only owned from Government, Colleges and people who birthed the world wide web before or near 2000.
TaKE CARE