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The world's largest supercomputer arrangements run Windows and uses
distributed computing from all round the world.

Before the anti-Linux brigade gets too excited, it would be only fair to
say that the individual owners have not wittingly given consent to this
project which consisted of crackers installing the Storm Worm into these
computers.

There you have it, this vast supercomputing matrix is at your service
(at a fee of course) for sending spam, phlishing, DDOS, etc.

See:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur...l?nav=rss_blog

peterwn wrote:
> The world's largest supercomputer arrangements run Windows and uses
> distributed computing from all round the world.
> Before the anti-Linux brigade gets too excited, it would be only fair to
> say that the individual owners have not wittingly given consent to this
> project which consisted of crackers installing the Storm Worm into these
> computers.
>
> There you have it, this vast supercomputing matrix is at your service
> (at a fee of course) for sending spam, phlishing, DDOS, etc.
>
> See:
>
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur...l?nav=rss_blog


LOL - very good!
The Storm botnet, of course.

Peter wrote:

> peterwn wrote:
>> The world's largest supercomputer arrangements run Windows and uses
>> distributed computing from all round the world.
>> Before the anti-Linux brigade gets too excited, it would be only fair to
>> say that the individual owners have not wittingly given consent to this
>> project which consisted of crackers installing the Storm Worm into these
>> computers.
>>
>> There you have it, this vast supercomputing matrix is at your service
>> (at a fee of course) for sending spam, phlishing, DDOS, etc.
>>
>> See:
>>
>
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur...l?nav=rss_blog
>
>
> LOL - very good!
> The Storm botnet, of course.

I've just read the Wikipedia articl e on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Worm

and from a technical perspective it's downright clever how this thing works.
As a software developer I admire the scope and range of this software. As a
humanist I despise such malware. Never-the-less, it is clever.
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A.