24th April 2011, 3:38 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Millions? Really? How do you get MILLIONS of computers infected with the same virus under one person's control? That really sounds like a lot. I'd believe thousands, and that's enough to take down, say, a church web site or something, but to suggest the population of an entire city or small nation would be at the beck and call of one hacker? That's a bit hard to swallow.You get millions because most hackers use BOTnets.. These are already pre-established networks of zombie computers that the hacker community shares. For example Microsoft once got hit by a BotNet community of over 4 million computers.
At any rate, I forgot to mention something. Some DDOS attacks have been happening for the past few weeks, which took down Sony's network but it was back up in a matter of a couple of hours. This seems like something completely different.