It seems that on Monday, three of the internet’s thirteen root servers came under attack by a network of zombie computers — Windows machines that had been hijacked from their users by criminals. According to one source most of the computers used in the attack were from “South Korea, China and the United States”.
Apparently South Korea is very much a world leader in more ways than one had imagined. I guess if Koreans switched to running Apple computers, they would lose their competitive edge in botnet capability and internet mayhem.
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Yeah, but then they’d be using crap, and who wants that?
Ha, ha Zonath. At least no one can hijack my crap and put cat porn on it.
No… but Crapple fanatics put cat porn on their own machines, so it’s not like anyone has to do that for them.
How do Kia drivers get off calling Mercedes Benzes crap?
Linux4ever
guys are we shocked a bunch of korean guys probably sitting in a pc bang surrounded by bowls of empty ramien and choco pies attempting to bring down the internet
in the name of DOKDO!!!!DAE HAN MIN GUK
Try running something like Ad-Aware on one of those PC bang computers or other public computers. 600 infected files and registry keys is my record.
Damn, I got on this windows box just now and it was already infected with cat porn.
Better than being infected by OS-X.
Didn’t your mother ever tell you to stay away from that Internet thing? Nothing but a bunch of cat porn lame people craving attention.
damnit… that should be ‘cat porn AND lame people’. I blame Windows, really. OS-X would have spotted that, I bet. DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!
Cat porn eh? I’m with mcnut, no one should be surprised.
By-the-way: Dae Mi Min Guk!! Just had to do it
Linux and OSX are not magic-bullet solutions to viruses and worms. Although Windows has more for many reasons there are not zero for Linux or OSX…
And besides, you can’t blame Koreans or Chinese or Americans for using Windows… There are no freaking games available on Linux or Mac… except maybe Doom or Minesweeper. And in the end, it is games that drive most of the PC industry.
Yeah, Linux and OS-X are victims of their own geekiness. Few people care that OS-X is superior for sound and video editing, and even fewer people care that Linux is safer for running network server. Most computer users want to play games and send email, which Windows allows them to do.
Someguy, there are decent games on OSX and email is simpler in OSX than Windows. Linux really is great for running network servers too — far better than Windows. Most Windows users are ignorant of what they are using and thus facilitate criminals through their ignorance. As it is, the new Windows (Vista) will not work with any banking or ticketing sites in Korea (and has major security flaws), though efforts are being made to fix that at this time. Because Korean sites rely so heavily upon Windows and Microsoft javascript (a proprietary version), they are inherently unsafe for financial transactions of any kind.
OMG… Nethack is just sooo uber! (Seriously, if you think there’s a good selection of games for the Mac, you’ve been in Korea for too long.
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And don’t even get me started with how complicated email is on Windows! You mean I have to click twice on that little icon? I mean — that’s just so hard!
The conception that Mac is more secure than a Windows is a misconception. Mac is just one of the many unix spawns with pretty clothes on.
The only reason Windows is less safe is because so many people use it, and most of them dont know or care about secuirty. A rightly configured windows is just as safe as a mac or linux :/
ggoma, that last part of your post is not accurate. Security flaws and exploits based upon such in Windows is how billions of dollars is being made by criminals this very day. The ignorance of windows users, regarding security, is only a part of the problem, which is all too well documented for me to attempt to recite evidence of such herein.
cheap DOS shellWindows is a very sophisticated “kick me hard” sign, stuck upon the user’s backside. The fact that this sign seems to be in Korean suggests to me that our wired Korea is more wires than knowledge and, in that sense, is as slow as Americans back in the States.There were no zombie OSX machines in this recent internet attack either.
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