Internet security firm Symantec recently reported that the PC users are jeopardizing their security by unknowingly helping distribute spyware and Spam. The report also purports that almost 6 million PCs all through the globe were recognized as bot-infected through the previous half of 2006, which is a twenty-nine per cent of raise for the past six months.
Bots, which are also dubbed as web robots, are software applications, which sprint recurring, automated tasks over the Internet. The pernicious bots, at times buried in mails or software, which claims to be legal, are capable enough to infect a PC and make use of it to automatically distribute spyware, spam and other info to other PCs over the Internet.
Dean Turner, executive editor of the Symantec report,
(They’re) spreading viruses and launching attacks. Some people’s machines are being turned into spam zombies that send out spam.
Several users don’t know that their PCs are, until they make out that their PC goes busy even when they are sitting aside from it. Strange-looking e-mails are continuously used to distribute pernicious data. However they don’t come in action until the e-mail is by the users and people have been more wary. Because of which the hackers have been prompted to make use of other techniques, as peer-to-peer music-sharing programs like Limewire.
Dean Turner said,
You’re downloading what you think is the latest Justin Timberlake song, and really all it is, is the attacker has renamed a (bot).
Thought so far no way seems to have been invented by the experts, but yet they have suggested that the use of many tools like a hardware router, firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware programs and up-to-date security patches for operating systems, could get you some relief from the malicious attacks of them.
