Britan tops zombie PC charts

by John Leyden

Britan has the largest zombie PC population of any country on the planet, according to the latest Symantec Internet Threat Report.

The UK has more than a quarter (25.2%) of all bots -- virus-infected, zombie PC's under the control of crackers and used for malicious purposes like identity theft and online fraud - with the US (24.6%) and China (7.8%) in second and third place....

Read More At: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/21/botnet_charts

> Britan tops zombie PC charts
> >
> > by John Leyden
> >
> > Britan has the largest zombie PC population of any country on the
> planet,
> > according to the latest Symantec Internet Threat Report.
> >
> > The UK has more than a quarter (25.2%) of all bots -- virus-infected,
> zombie
> > PC's under the control of crackers and used for malicious purposes like
> > identity theft and online fraud - with the US (24.6%) and China (7.8%)
> in
> > second and third place....
> >
> Read More At: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/21/botnet_charts
> >
> Wow! I'm amazed we (USA) don't top the list.
> I bet Germany has something to do with all the bots in the UK.
> No offense to the Germans but they are famous for having a lot of hackers.
>
> [Edit] Ah! Just looked at your profile and your from Germany, Sorry Dude!
> "Inserting foot in mouth now" :(
>

Hmm, yea you'd think that we should have more zombies in the states. I just think that our (I'm American) hackers are puttin those bots over there CR, since we have the same langauge as the British. Most mal-hackers like to play around with a victims puter instead of DoSing. Yes indeed, the Germans are very good with our OS's, and they understand English better than folks from other non-English countries I'd say.

I stay away from botnets. Too risky. [edited]

> > Hmm, yea you'd think that we should have more zombies in the states. I
> just
> > think that our (I'm American) hackers are puttin those bots over there
> CR,
> > since we have the same langauge as the British. Most mal-hackers like to
> play
> > around with a victims puter instead of DoSing. Yes indeed, the Germans
> are
> > very good with our OS's, and they understand English better than folks
> from
> > other non-English countries I'd say.
> >
> > I stay away from botnets. Too risky. [edited]
> >
> Your probably right, it's just that when searching the web for Trojans
> and Virus programs it seems that most of them are in German language.
> Maybe that's because the US can't really stop them from putting Hacker
> sites on the web as easy as sites from the US hosted by US servers?
> None of my business but why is Germany in your profile, do you live there?
>

Yea, the Germans do have some of the most infamous tools around, like Buschtrommel, TFN, etc. Russia, Brazil, and I think the French are also good sources. But I think that it's easy to get these kind of tools from the net and from almost any country. I'm not exactly sure, but I think that our gov monitors hack sites closer than other govs do.

Heh, yea I live in Germany, but I'll probly come back to the states within a year.

> > Heh, yea I live in Germany, but I'll probly come back to the states
> within a
> > year.
> >
>
> Just remembered something!!
> I had a friend Names Eric that I went to school with and he lived in
> Germany for several years.
> They went back and forth from Here and Germany for some reason, think one of
> their parents was from Germany, anyway Eric had a little
> brother named Alex.
> I know it's probably not you but just a thought.
>
>

Nope, that's not me CR.