Hmm, reminds me of the current scam here in Iceland, where a telephone "service" claiming to be for Windows, renewing licenses for Windows on home and personal computers and eliminating viruses and malware at the same time, via "remote control", - for a price of course...... "Botnets are armies of infected personal computers, or bots, which run software forcing them to regularly check in with and obey "command and control" servers operated by hackers. Botnets are typically used to commit financial crimes, send spam, distribute computer viruses and attack computer networks. Citadel is one of the biggest botnets in operation today. Microsoft said its creator bundled the software with pirated versions of the Windows operating system, and used it to control PCs in the United States, Western Europe, Hong Kong, India and Australia." Wondering if these are linked? Can anyone explain this to me? According to the article, Iceland is in cooperation with law enforcement to uproot these criminals.......
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:49:09 +0000
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