Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Twelve million computers have been hijacked by cyber-criminals and detected by security vendor McAfree since January, the firm has said.

It reports there has been a 50% increase in the number of detected so-called "zombie" computers since 2008.

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Skynet.

Should anyone read this and are concerned their computer may be one of the botnet machines because it does not have antivirus should go to www.clamav.net

ClamAV is a free open-source antivirus. They have builds for Windows, Linux and Unix based OS's such as Mac. It is freely available for personal and commercial use.

Avast is an excellent scanner for Windows machines but is only available for personal use, not commercial systems (so you can't run it for free on your work computer)
www.avast.com

Skynet

Judgment Day is near!

Don't repent, arm yourselves!

"Avast is an excellent scanner for Windows machines but is only available for personal use, not commercial systems (so you can't run it for free on your work computer)"


Arrrrgh! Be ye sayin' that if I runs avast on me work PC, I be a pirate? ARRRGHH!!!

Avast me heartys!

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