An interesting article about the Storm botnet which I briefly mentioned a few weeks ago.
The Storm computer virus had been spreading since early in the year, grabbing control of PCs around the world. By now, Storm had infected nearly 5-10 million computers with a secret program that turned those PCs into unwilling slaves (or “zombies”) of those controlling this network (or botnet) of computers.
Many of you may have noticed a lot of recent spam directing you to look at an online greeting card, or accompanied by PDF files. That was Storm, the largest single spam campaign ever.
When you try to look at the PDF file, Storm secretly takes over your computer. But Storm tries very hard to hide itself. All it wants to do is use your Internet connection to send spam, or other types of malicious data.
The thing is no one, so far, knows exactly what the Storm virus is about, or who controls it, or what its ultimate purpose is.
There’s also an in depth article at Wikipedia.
