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renegade600
March 28th, 2007, 02:29 AM
interesting article about how bots are taking control of computers without the owners knowledge.
see this
(http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/03/bots_story.html)
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.
chicohonda02
March 30th, 2007, 07:41 PM
hmm interesting.
iwishiknew
March 30th, 2007, 08:43 PM
thats scary
Spider
March 31st, 2007, 02:35 AM
A computer can't send anything unless it spins the hard drive.
If the hard drive spins you hear it and see the indicator light flickering.
If your computer was turned into an autobot you'd know by the hard drive
spinning and never stopping.
Never stopping because one thing you can be guaranteed about greed, it's
always on full speed. They can never be subtle they always have to try for
everything all at once.
I never get aboard the "Chicken Little" train, no fear here.
oracle128
April 1st, 2007, 06:35 PM
A computer can't send anything unless it spins the hard drive.
If the hard drive spins you hear it and see the indicator light flickering.
If your computer was turned into an autobot you'd know by the hard drive
spinning and never stopping.
Never stopping because one thing you can be guaranteed about greed, it's
always on full speed. They can never be subtle they always have to try for
everything all at once.
I never get aboard the "Chicken Little" train, no fear here.The problem with that theory is, the type of person most susceptible to becoming a zombie is exactly not the type of person who is going to notice irregular activity on their PC's resources.
Spider
April 1st, 2007, 07:36 PM
the type of person most susceptible to becoming a zombie is exactly not the type of person who is going to notice irregular activity on their PC's resources.
That's one of the reasons we are here, we show them where the hard drive light is on the tower and
tell them why it's "flickering". The usual tip-off for those people is they claim "It's not as fast as it use
to be".