Do you know that your computer might be committing crime at the moment . Your computer may become a "zombie" if it is infected with a worm or virus and hijacked by a hacker. Here are some tips to see if your computer is infected and remedy the problem.
A zombie is a computer infected with a worm or virus and used without your knowledge. The pirate away partially or totally the use of the computer and it so often discreet.
A computer becomes a zombie for several reasons:
- Antivirus inadequately updated.
- A misconfigured firewall or absent.
- An operating system never updated and non-patched.
Only one of these gaps on a computer just for worms like Bagle / Beagle or Gaobot, and hundreds of variants, "zombifient" your computer.
It is estimated that large number of computers in the world, become zombies. A recent publication of the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report shows that over a quarter of zombies would residence in the U.S. Your computer may become a "zombie" if it is infected with a worm or virus and hijacked by a hacker.
The zombies are not fancy. A real zombie market has developed, exchanges of botnet (network of thousands of zombies) has been practiced by pirates and criminal . These groups of zombies and allow the mass mailing of spam, computer attacks of denial of service or the spread of malware. All this being done discreetly without the knowledge of the owners of hijacked computers. The latest date being Waledac botnet and Zeus.
Hacker identifies an Internet unprotected computers that can easily be infected by a worm.
The attacker infects unprotected computers with a worm to make zombies obeying
The attacker uses the zombies it comes to infect any type of trigger for attacks on the internet. The zombies act without the computer owners realize this. They nevertheless remain legally responsible for actions carried out via their connection.
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