USA Today 9/8: Are hackers using your PC to spew spam and steal?

["H. Morrow Long" <morrow.long () YALE EDU>]

A reasonable (no yellow journalism nor purple prose) pop press article
on botted PCs
-- if you ever need to point "lay persons" at an understandable
explanation of 'zombies':


http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-09-08-
zombieuser_x.htm

- H. Morrow Long, CISSP, CISM
  University Information Security Officer
  Director -- Information Security Office
  Yale University, ITS


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