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ATLANTA - Security company Marshal has estimated that six botnets are responsible for 85 percent of the world’s spam.
The spambot trojan Srizbi accounts for 39 percent of global spam, followed by Rustock at 20 percent, Mega-D at 11 percent, Hacktool.Spammer at 7 percent, Pushdo at 6 percent and Storm at 2 percent.

The numbers track the quantity of spam produced by each botnet, not the total number of systems infected.

The profile of Mega-D, which ARS Technica said in early February was swiftly rising through attack methods based on social engineering, is dropping because of a 10-day control server malfunction. Mega-D’s attack uses mirrors of social website emails and actual Flash animations, which are offered after users install a “Flash update.”

Ozok recently was identified as the malware behind Mega-D.

Srizbi has become the top spam generator with an assault using celebrity porn spam that says, “The Pornos is New!”

The Storm network once accounted for 21 percent of all spam in its heyday, containing an estimated 85,000 “zombies.” Mega-D rose to account for 32 percent of the spam network in early February but only used an estimated 35,000 bots.

Several botnets recently have been employed to advertise individual products or collections of products. Over several weeks, Marshal picked up ads for the “Express Herbals” website from sources contaminated by Srizbi, Rustock, Hacktool.Spammer and Pushdo.

Clicking on the links enables the download of several trojans, including Srizbi, Marshal said.

Microsoft Windows is the biggest PIECE OF SH*T operating system available. Why do I say this…I ddon’t have time to write all of the reasons but here are a few:

1. Microsoft only cares about making money. The can’t even patch all of the security holes and problems with Windows XP before they came out with VISTA. Most pc’s that currently have XP installed will NOT even run VISTA due to the excessive resourses required to run it. Not everyone is as rich as Bill Gates and can afford to run out and buy a new pc every week. Then again why should we, I could give a rat’s ass about the latest version when the current version still doesn’t even work right.
Why is it Windows even costs money when other superior operating systems are FREE ??
the real funny part is that those free operating systems will run quite a few software programs ment to wun in Windows but then why would you want to do that anyway when there are other programs designed to run in those operating systems that do the same thing.

2. The permissions have never worked right. Supposedly you have to be an Administrator for programs to be able to be installed. Then why in the hell does viruses,malware and spyware install if you are logged in as a restricted user??
Why in the hell is viruses, malware, spyware allowed to install in the 1st place ?
This can be a whole topic on it’s own seeing that other operating systems does not allow this.

3. Why does it take a driver for every piece of hardware? Funny…. Ubuntu, Linux, BSD very seldom will require any special “driver” for hardware.

4. Why does each version of Windows require a different driver for the SAME hardware?

5. When a program or software locks up and you tell it to “End Now” why in the hell does it keep asking you to “End Now” ? Why doesn’t it do what you told it to do?
Then why does it lock up to begin with and usually lock up Windows completely.

6. Why does Windows ask “Are You Sure” everytime I want to do something? If I didn’t want to do something then I wouldn’t be trying to do it. I am logged in as Administrator, that means I know what I am doing so why do I need asked?

7. If Windows wasn’t so intergrated with the internet 99% of the problems would be eliminated.

Windows has always been a Apple/MAC wanna be BUT it NEVER will be.

If you are interested in an alternative to WIndows check out Ubuntu. It’s a fantastic operating system, 100% FREE and 100’s of FREE software programs available for it.

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