200,000 new zombies per day

[Vikorr]

{QUOTE-> New research indicates that more than 200,000 computers were commandeered and turned into "zombies" each day last month, and that the amount of virus messaging on the Internet has increased by 50 percent during the last two months. <-QUOTE}

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/48174.html

[houseisland]

Scary, isn't it?

The consequences spiral out and out and have an eventual impact on everyone.

I myself have been bitten in the posterior. My wife, who teaches at a university, got us tarpitted with my home ISP by sending out anouncements to her classes from home. Since I am the home tech support person, it was my fault. :gack: Fix it now!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

I had to climb my ISP's tech support totem pole to a senior administrator level before I could convince anyone that my computers were not possessed by demon SPAM bots.

My home ISP, a very good and very responsible small ISP (by the way), is forced to be pro-active. It is exasperating sometimes to live under the measures they must impose, but the consolation is that things would get much worse without such measures.