Best way to battle botnets: before or after the infection?
- Monday, 08 November 2010 08:15
Botnets have penetrated most Fortune 500 companies, and the United States leads the world in PCs infected with bots.
And Mac users beware—a new Trojan variant attacks Mac OS systems via social networking sites. If you see a message on a social network like Facebook that says "Is this you in the video?" clicking the item could deliver your computer to a botnet—a network of hijacked machines deployed to steal content and launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on other sites.
