Comments on: Windows Botnets Go Out of Control, Obama Web Site Delivers Windows Malware

By: Gentoo User

Gentoo User — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:49:40 +0000

Apparently you forgot to write up a nasty condemnation of all those PHP/Apache-based sites that were hacked to serve off malware a while ago. They targeted a vulnerability that had a readily-available patch weeks before the exploit was seen in the wild. And then they used Google bombs to draw traffic to the pages, if I recall.

Oh no, wait. You didn’t forget, of course.

By: twitter

twitter — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:47:08 +0000

Messing with the president’s website make a serious federal reaction for these idiots. It will be interesting to watch GWB’s wiretap program turned around to track the spammer’s network. (Who knows, Obama might even get the propper search warrants.) My prediction is that the botnet trail will lead back to WE and other corporate proxies and Obama will dig as deep as he can to find it and any other pieces of Republican guilt. Even if he can’t find that, the M$ cesspool is sure to have dire consequences for M$. We’ve already seen stories about him grumbling about White House computer backwardness and being forced to use a Winblows Mobile handset. Silly stories about iPods and Zunes must also chafe, who would not resent being used as an endorsement for something as rotten as Zune? Porn spam on his website might move Obama’s M$ relationship from disdain to hatred.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:19:18 +0000

This is a very important point that Carla wrote about. I mentioned her 2 writings on this subject and gave a new example of Microsoft pressure groups muscling journalists.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:15:32 +0000

Both the UPI article and the USA Today article have major errors. Both misidentify the worm as an “Internet” worm or a “computer” worm. It is neither. It is a Windows worm.

110 years of journalistic excellence my ass.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:12:04 +0000

Over the years there have been various Internet milestones. e.g. www passing telnet, then passing ftp-data. ogg vorbis passing 12% of audio, etc. e-mail becoming 60% then 90% spam from windows botnets.

At what point does (has) the point where the majority of traffic is windows malware get passed?

Internet has been good, but is in terminal stage windows infestation. Internet2 died on the vine in part because of MS and probably in part because of Doug. How about Internet3, starting with a flat out ban on closed protocols *and* a prohibition against any Windows or MS products…