The Botnet Gang War For Windows PC Turf
Derek Currie
Inside Edge - IT News, Analysis and Opinion
Davey Winder, Staff Writer
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> Leading AV researchers at Kaspersky have now identified three criminal gangs
> which are participating in an increasingly desperate battle of the botnets.
> This turf war is, as all turf wars have a habit of doing, turning nasty and
> it is the average computer who is getting caught ion the crossfire. No longer
> are the gangs happy to settle for a slice of the spam pie, they want it all.
> And that means control over as many compromised third party computers to
> create the biggest of mega zombie botnets. To accomplish this, the gangs
> behind the Bagle, Warezov and Zhelatin worms are turning their attention to
> ridding those compromised computers of rival gang malware infections in order
> to install their own and gain that control.
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> . . .
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> Although there has been some success in dealing with high profile botnet
> related security incidents, including the 57 month prison term for Jeanson
> James Ancheta for infecting 400,000 computers for botnet use, this really is
> tip of the iceberg time. The really organised criminals will be using exactly
> the same techniques to evade capture and to protect the business of
> criminality as is seen in the drugs war. You can be sure that while
> sacrificial lambs get jail time, the gang bosses and the real botnet builders
> will continue to prosper. Until, that is, law enforcement, the judiciary and
> governments around the world start to take the spam problem as seriously as
> they do the drugs one. To be frank, I donšt see any evidence of that
> happening any time soon.
How to end this entire problem in one move:
DUMP WINDOWS.
Put Linux on your existing PCs. Or go Macintosh. Or go some other
form of Unix.
Just GET THE HELL OFF FRICKIN' WINDOWS!
This is SOOOO easy folks.
Get the clue please.
:-Derek
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Fortune Magazine 11-29-05: What's your computer setup today?
Frederick Brooks: I happily use a Macintosh. It's not been
equalled for ease of use, and I want my computer to be a tool,
not a challenge.
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[Frederick Brooks is the author of 'The Mythical Man Month'.
He spearheaded the movement to modernize computer software
engineering in 1975.]
Peter Hayes
> > frank, I don't see any evidence of that happening any time soon.
>
>
> How to end this entire problem in one move:
>
> DUMP WINDOWS.
>
> Put Linux on your existing PCs. Or go Macintosh. Or go some other
> form of Unix.
>
> Just GET THE HELL OFF FRICKIN' WINDOWS!
>
> This is SOOOO easy folks.
>
> Get the clue please.
I couldn't agree more, but I don't see anything being done until
legislation is enacted to force Windows users to treat the digital
highway with the same respect they treat tarmac.
A licence should be needed before a Windows user is allowed to go
online. The licence would be issued after the user passed an internet
driving test, demonstrating the need for safe surfing.
Should their PeeCee become infected they'd lose their licence for, say,
three months, and their machine would have to be certified malware free
by a recognised authority, just as cars have annual roadworthiness
tests.
Mac and Linux users would of course be exempt, since these platforms
contribute nothing towards online malware.
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Immunity is better than innoculation.
Peter