It's designed to get people's anxieties up, ... Hoaxes spread very rapidly, using psychology to spread the information from computer to computer. It clogs up e-mail servers and e-mail boxes. Users are never quite sure what's secure what's not secure.
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By enabling an infected machine to be remotely controlled, this threat opens up the user's identity and computer for potentially malicious purposes.Vincent Weafer
From a home-user point of view, I would not panic or worry. But it's a good opportunity to go back and look at your computer practices and see if there's something that can be changed to make the computer a little safer.
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What we are saying is that attackers are increasingly targeting your assets and your private information,
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We think users can be very safe online if they take the best practices out there and just practice a bit of Internet safety.
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Mark Kennedy, a software architect, chimes in And our problem is that when you go that deep to try to extract it, you can render the machine unusable. Then you get blamed, rather than the bad guy. ... the bad actors are getting really bad.
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We determined that a significant amount of these were new machines that were Christmas gifts going online and not getting security patches onto them.
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