[CS-FSLUG] For you Journalists

[Ed Hurst]

Nathan T. wrote:

> out of the number of Windows users they cannot all be average, surely
> there must be several of them who can keep their boxes safe enough.
> That narrows down the available market a little now doesn't it, and
> when you consider that each vulnerable computer is going to be
> subjected to multiple attacks and is going to accumulate a lot of
> garbage that will reduce the performance and make it an unattractive
> target for further viruses and malware you start to see competition
> over the remaining attractive and vulnerable boxes.

On this one point there is a weakness. The crackers who create and run 
botnets ("botnet herders") will constantly compete for each others' 
machines. They will write a malware package designed to remove other 
malware. Others mindlessly pile on until a given machine stops 
responding altogether. Since the process is largely automated, no 
infected machine is "an unattractive target".

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Ed Hurst
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