Re: UK tops zombie PC chart (again)

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> Ran across this article in The Register this morning:
>
> [snip]
>
> Britain is once again 'top of the bots' with the world's highest proportion of known bot-infected computers. In the 
> first half of 2005, The UK has almost a third (32 per cent) of all bots – virus-infected, zombie PCs under the control of hackers and 
> used for malicious purposes such as identity theft and spam distribution –. Britain also topped the chart in the second half of last 
> year with a lower 26 per cent rating.
>
> The statistics, taken from Symantec’s Global Internet Threat Report for the period January to June 2005, are based on 
> the number of PCs worldwide that are known to be infected with bot agents, such as the infamous Agobot worm. Bot 
> network activity has increased from below 5,000 bots per day in December 2004 to an average of 10,352 during this 
> reporting period.
>
> Symantec reckons the likely cause of this rise is down to the rapid growth in broadband subscriptions and the delayed 
> download of software patches for operating systems and software.

And their numbers are still ridiculously low. I am happy they are taking 
the botnet threat seriously though.

        Gadi.
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