Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th May 2009 22:48 UTC
The past few years, it seemed as if virus writers had moved away from doing actual damage to systems to instead focus on stealth, so that infected machines can silently, and unknowingly, be used for all sorts of malicious practices. Sadly, there are still those crackers out there that prefer the old-fashioned approach to these matters. The result: 100000 ruined Windows machines.
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Thom,
I have no idea why you consider these machines as "ruined". If such a bot goes down it's most likely a good thing. How else would the semi-ignorant webmaster get pushed to actually fix things instead of looking away?
When reading how this guy just deleted unwanted files without taking further action this almost made me laugh. What kind of sillyness is this? Are we really expected to send sensitive data to people which don't even know how to turn the key in their vault's lock?
With some luck, a culture of setting botted servers offline will evolve. Kill the botnets by their own weapons. This would undoubtly give the evils a hard time.
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