Computer Security Tips: Is Your Computer A Zombie?
Computer Security Tips: Is Your Computer A Zombie?
According to recent reports, the Storm Worm is currently infecting as many as TEN MILLION computers around the world.
These computers are infected so that they can be slaved together into what is called a “zombie net”. If this makes you picture a scene from a horror movie, with thousands of the living dead shuffling after a helpless victim, in a way, you’re not far off.
Zombie nets, also known as “botnets” are computers just like any other, but they’ve been infected with a virus that makes the computers remote controlled by some unknown person or group of people.
In most cases, these zombies can be infected without the computer’s user having any idea it’s happening, and the computer can remain infected for weeks or months!
And yes, if you are using Windows, it’s very possible your computer could be infected right now and you’d have no idea…
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