David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.removethisbit.no> wrote:
>
> It's uncommon to get a distributed attack, however. Such attacks
> require a botnet. While there are vast numbers of zombie PC's in such
> networks, there are not that many botnets and botnet controllers.

There are millions and millions of computers running Microsoft Windows,
many of which are prone to becoming zombies. (Many of the packages have
inbuilt support for this: including Internet Explorer, Outlook Express,
Microsoft Word, other Microsoft Office components, and other tools that
autorun (or even click to run) untrusted malicious dropper code.)

I reckon you can expect about 3 hits per minute from botnet zombies, if
you are connected to the internet. Botnets are really sophisticated these days
and may do something quite specific against your host.

Mark.

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