:Zombie PCs: 'Time to Infection is Less Than Five Minutes'
Zombie PCs: 'Time to Infection is Less Than Five Minutes' Oct 23, 2008, 16 :31 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (6624 reads) (Other stories by Andrew Nusca)
"According to the article, Microsoft investigators "were amazed recently to find a botnet that turned on the Microsoft Windows Update feature after taking over a computer, to defend its host from an invasion of competing infections."
"Good lord. What's more, botnets have evolved quickly to make detection more difficult, recently using "fast-flux," a technique that generates a rapidly changing set of Internet addresses to make the botnet more difficult to locate and disrupt."
