More than 450,000 computers are now part of zombie networks

[Diver]

Well, that's me sorted...

Apart from being dumb enough to download Chrome, obv....

I had to manually remove most of the carp it left on the laptop when I tried it

[cojak]

I had to manually remove most of the carp it left on the laptop when I tried it

I still have to clean up after it - on a new machine too. What a stupid cow...

I'll have to tackle it this afternoon.

[ratewhore]

And I use the Noscript add-on.

Tried it, binned it. Broke too much functionality.

Oh, and network based forensics will tell you whether you have a rootkit, whatever, on your machine...

[DaveB]

You can get a definitive answer by firing up the suspect box, leaving it idle and running a packet sniffer or other monitor of network activity from a seperate, known to be clean, device and seeing what there is going on over the network.

A compromised box will be sending traffic to odd places even when it is supposedly idle. Prime suspects are IRC traffic and outbound email traffic.

[AtW]

AtW's got to get his distributed computing power from somewhere

We only have just over 150, all legit of course.