The number of computers hijacked by malicious hackers to send out spam and viruses has grown almost 30% in the last year, according to a survey. More than six million computers world wide are now part of a “bot network”, reported security firm Symantec.
Computer users typically do not know that their PC has been hijacked.
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One Response
deankirkland2
December 31st, 2011 at 10:44 pm
1That's a staggering number of computers just waiting to execute code as directed by the hackers.