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Storm worm botnet more powerful than top supercomputers

 
 
Jonathan Walker
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      09-08-2007
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/60752,...computers.aspx

"" Sergeant said researchers at MessageLabs see about 2 million different
computers in the botnet sending out spam on any given day, and he adds
that he estimates the botnet generally is operating at about 10 percent of
capacity. ""


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      09-08-2007
On 8 Sep 2007 12:48:08 +1200, in message <>,
Jonathan Walker wrote:

> Subject: Storm worm botnet more powerful than top supercomputers


As posted here by "peterwin" on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:07:20
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