'Surge' in hijacked PC networks

**apj101** · 03-19-2007, 06:48 PM

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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6465833.stm

PohTayToez · 03-19-2007, 06:50 PM

Not surprising.

dreioncytherea · 03-20-2007, 10:49 PM

yeah..almost everyday I'm afraid to enter sites that I don't know much about because most often than not I get trojan downloaders from them.

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03-20-2007, 10:49 PM	#3 (permalink)
dreioncytherea New Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 24	yeah..almost everyday I'm afraid to enter sites that I don't know much about because most often than not I get trojan downloaders from them.