(ZDNet)-Computer technicians at James Madison University have discovered that 16 student-owned Win98-based PCs were infected with a possible variant of the hacker tools used in recently highly publicized DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.?Gary Flynn, a security engineeer at James Madison, in Harrisonburg, VA, said that during the week of February 13 he noticed an unusual slowdown in the university's student residence network.?The problem: 16 student-owned PCs had been infected with the "zombie code" that allows a hacker to secretly take over a computer and launch a DDoS attack against another site.?Most zombie code, up to this point, had only been discovered on Solaris- and Linux-based servers.?Read more...?
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