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Bot herders arrested in Spain

article published on 3 March, 2010

Spanish police have arrested men behind a 13 million-strong botnet used to spew spam around the world. All three men arrested were Spanish citizens, and none had any significant hacking skills. Over 13 million computers in 190 countries were believed to have been compromised in this case, with half of the Fortune 1000 companies and 40 major banks in some way affected. The botnet was rendered ... [ read the full article ]

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Mez
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_ 		4. March 2010 @ 12:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yes, this IS VERY scary! I download a needed utility and assumed my virus scanner would detect a virus. It it was a remote controlled downloader/installer that probably installed some evil devices. Because the apps are not viruses so they can not be scanned as malware and I have many apps that load into memory it will take many hrs to sort it out. I am using a new C: drive and still have not figured out what actually happened. What I fear most are apps that hunt your drive for ID theft and key loggers.
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