threatpost: The Root of the Botnet Epidemic
“There are no definitive numbers on how large the botnet problem is, but experts say the number of infected PCs is in the tens of millions at any given time. Many of those machines belong to home users with relatively fast broadband connections and little or no knowledge of the security threats that lie in wait all over the Web. These PCs are easy prey for attackers. But this wasn’t always the case.”


