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Storm: The Largest Botnet in The World?

Cara Garretson writes on Network World:

Storm may not be the most creative or malicious piece of malware ever written, but it’s on track to become the most productive; threat researchers’ recent estimates put the number of PCs it has infected at more than 1 million.

First showing up on researchers’ radars about a year ago, Storm is defined by some as a worm, others as a Trojan Horse. [It is both. -ferg]

Though it has gone by many names, Storm — referring to the spam blasts it’s been behind that mention storms — has stuck.

posted by Fergie @ 9/28/2007 11:44:00 AM