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Antivirus Pro 1.0

Antivirus Pro 1.0

...the long-awaited Antivirus Pro!- HD Graphics!- Two new Virus: Polymorph and Bot Net !- Three new Towers: Reboot, Ice and Logic Bomb !- Three new Maps... Read more

8 October, 2011
A Real-Time Rescue System: Towards Practical Implementation of Robotic Sensor Network

A Real-Time Rescue System: Towards Practical Implementation of Robotic Sensor Network

...paper, the authors present a real-time monitor and rescue system, TELOSW-BOT NET, utilizing integrated networks Read more

11 August, 2011
WDA: A Web Farm Distributed Denial of Service Attack Attenuator

WDA: A Web Farm Distributed Denial of Service Attack Attenuator

...for more than 10 years. Such attacks are carried out by a ''Bot-net", an army of zombie hosts spread around the Internet, that overwhelm... Read more

1 June, 2010

Telewest responds to virus problems

High-speed customers of ISP blueyonder will have their security managed for them, after Telewest decided to offer free managed anti-malware services Read more

23 August, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

ZombieMeter keeps tabs on hacked PCs

CipherTrust is trying to keep a record of hijacked PCs - no mean feat with over 170,000 machines being compromised every day Read more

27 May, 2005 by Joris Evers

Web outage blamed on zombies

...other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net" -- a large network of zombified home PCs -- Internet infrastructure provider Akamai... Read more

17 June, 2004 by Jim Hu and Robert Lemos

Sick virus writer exploits London bomb blast

Trojan creates bot-net for sending spam... A virus has been spotted in the wild... Read more

9 July, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

Microsoft, Internet Pirates and Web 2.0+

...design of Windows from the beginning has been flawed. Consider the resulting bot-net zombies to be car-jacked vehicles on the “Information highway”. Now... Read more

10 June, 2009

Pirates on Board the M.S. MoneyTanker!

...Defender or other Anti-malware software on the system and remove the bot-net, the rootkit or what-have you. If the user doesn't... Read more

14 May, 2009

Security: The never-ending battle

...to a company, or simply using those machines as part of a bot-net to launch massive spam and spyware attacks. The IT administrator has... Read more

20 May, 2005 by Aaron Tan
AlarmDisk 2 2

AlarmDisk 2 2

...are running on the system. This aids in virus, malware, Trojan and bot-net detection User and System Accounts monitoring -AlarmDisk 2 keeps track of... Read more

7 May, 2010

Opinion: Is cybercrime unstoppable?

...such 'zombies'. In September 2004 a Norwegian internet company shut down a bot-net controlling 10,000 machines. And SpamHaus estimates suggest 50,000 new... Read more

11 April, 2005 by Simon Moores

MyDoom: The virus that changed the world

...or the launching of denial-of-service attacks. The creation of these 'bot-net' networks represented a coming together of virus writers, spammers and organised... Read more

26 January, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

7 minutes ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

55 minutes ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

2 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

3 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

5 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

5 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

6 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

10 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

12 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

14 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

21 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

21 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

23 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

1 day ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

1 day ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

1 day ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

1 day ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

1 day ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

1 day ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report