Is YOUR Computer a Criminal

[muckshifter]

Your home computer may be committing a crime at this very moment. It might be sending out spam. It might be buying stock as part of a pump-and-dump scheme. Or it might be helping attack the Internet itself, silently and invisibly, as you read this story. And the odds your computer is a criminal are quickly rising.

Ouch!

I'm going back to Linux.

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[Ian]

These bot armies – often between 50,000 and 70,000 PCs strong -- are leased out for around $5,000 a day to spammers, said Howard Schmidt, former White House cyberczar. An attacker who might want to threaten a bank with denial of service and demand an extortion payment would probably have to pay more.

Perhaps we should switch our PC's over from crunching

Interesting article there Mucks!

 

[Abarbarian]

If me maths is right , that means they are paying 20 cents per pc per day . Thats a small fortune to some folks in the world .