[pchelpers] News: Is your computer a criminal?

Hi folks,

    "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.

    "The Web, some say, has been turned into an operating system for
    criminals. Computer viruses that hijack PCs and turn them into
    electronic robots, or “bots,” have become the  killer app. The
    operation of networks of hijacked computers is so lucrative that
    hackers are actually fighting electronic wars over them, a story
    we will explore next week in part two of this series."

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/03/bots_story.html
    
-- 
Scott.



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