[pchelpers] Re: News:Worm Warning: New Would-be Botnet Growing Explosively

Also, to keep abreast of current threats, and get the names of new bad
domains that you can add to your hosts file to block them, regularly
read the following Security Blog by Dancho Danchev, a security expert
who regularly investigates, monitors, and discovers new malware sites,
as well as analyzing new malware variants. He is regularly featured in
articles on ZDNet also. -

<http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/>

Later, Ray Parrish


> RP> Pen Pal wrote:
>   
>>> How exactly does one get this worm?
>>>
>>> Pen
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>
>>> Posted by Keith Ferrell Friday, Jan 16, 2009, 10:53 AM ET
>>>
>>> A new botnet. and a big one, could be in the early stages of existence,
>>> with more than 3.5 million PCs, by some estimates, already enrolled as a
>>> result of a fast-spreading worm. As many as a third of the world's
>>> Windows machines may be vulnerable. 
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