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Saturday, October 21, 2006

Welcome to the world of botnets

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""Eric Sites stares at the screen of a "dirty box," a Windows machine infected with the self-replicating Wootbot network worm. Within seconds, there is a significant spike in CPU usage as the infected computer starts scanning the network, looking for vulnerable hosts. Basically, this machine is now owned by a criminal.""

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