Potential ‘big bad### botnet’ spreading fast*
The ‘Downadup’ worm is spreading quickly and now infects more than 3.5 million PCs, according to the security company F-Secure.
In a blog post on Wednesday, F-Secure put the total number of infected machines at an estimated 3,521,230 — a rise of more than a million machines over the previous day’s tally…
Wow. A million new infections in one day..
Folks, to read the rest of this article (clipped from ZDNet) by David Meyer and Tom Espiner, click here.
[update 1/19/09: over 8 million now. Here’s the latest (and how that number is arrived at), Calculating the Size of the Downadup Outbreak]
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