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Trojan Forced PCs to Take Part in Climate Research Project
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:47:04 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via heise Security News. [snip] These days, if a Windows PC is infected with a trojan, it is quite likely that it will be used as a bot in a spam army to distribute advertising e-mails. But in some rare cases, the computer may suddenly find itself having to perform calculations of weather forecasts in a cluster. A moderator of the distributed computing project climateprediction.net has reported just such a case. [snip] More: http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/85807/ - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF399lq1pz9mNUZTMRArMmAJ9UAK2xqLxes67yO1IgFaon/agiPwCfb0QR CFCNB5k+aKPZ29WN3cS0GHw= =ZxtO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Trojan Forced PCs to Take Part in Climate Research Project Fergie (Feb 23)
- Re: Trojan Forced PCs to Take Part in Climate Research Project Nick FitzGerald (Feb 25)
- Re: Trojan Forced PCs to Take Part in Climate ResearchProject Axel Pettinger (Feb 25)
- Re: Trojan Forced PCs to Take Part in Climate Research Project Nick FitzGerald (Feb 25)