The Mariposa botnet had the power to dwarf Georgia and Estonia cyberattacks if it had been used to launch denial of service attacks, say Spanish police. Months of investigations by the Guardia Civil in Spain, the FBI and security firm Panda Security and Defence Intelligence led to the takedown of the 12.7 million strong zombie …

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Thursday 4th March 2010 13:47 GMT Anonymous Coward

More botnets to take down...

... particularly these objectionable ones, with millions of PCs held in their evil grasp:

MSN

Twitter

Facebook

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1. Thursday 11th March 2010 10:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  RE: More botnets to take down...
  
  You missed the most obvious one - windows!
  
  People usually get infected at work and as a result, when they buy a new PC they actually ASK for it to be installed for them...
  
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Thursday 4th March 2010 16:58 GMT Anonymous Coward

Well said

The man with no friends!

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Thursday 4th March 2010 18:10 GMT tom 71

twitter is jealous

Many beautiful young ladies want to follow me but twitter bans them every time.

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Thursday 4th March 2010 23:52 GMT Anonymous Coward

Are they using a 50p mic from Escom?

Are they using a 50p mic from Escom?

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