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Unpatched Microsoft Windows PC Turned To Botnets By Worms

Submitted by Khalid on Fri, 2006/03/10 - 20:02

Brian Krebs writes in the Washington Post about an online interview with someone who setup a botnet of 30,000 Windows PCs  by downloading malicious source code and making it into a worm.

The main reason is unpatched Windows that lack security fixes. 

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