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    This new scam promises that a cheap, usually American, stock is about to take off and you should get in before its to late. The scammer then dumps his/her stock as buyers leap in before it collapses.

    This scam is different in that it uses an image to bypass anti-spam software and experts say that it could bring the internet to a virtual standstill by the end of this year. "Image spam" now represents 35 per cent of all junk email.

    So why are these image scams so menacing to the Internet? The reason is Botnets! According to honeynet.com "A botnet is a network of compromised machines that can be remotely controlled by an attacker. Due to their immense size (tens of thousands of systems can be linked together), they pose a

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    This new scam promises that a cheap, usually American, stock is about to take off and you should get in before its to late. The scammer then dumps his/her stock as buyers leap in before it collapses.

    This scam is different in that it uses an image to bypass anti-spam software and experts say that it could bring the internet to a virtual standstill by the end of this year. "Image spam" now represents 35 per cent of all junk email.

    So why are these image scams so menacing to the Internet? The reason is Botnets! According to honeynet.com "A botnet is a network of compromised machines that can be remotely controlled by an attacker. Due to their immense size (tens of thousands of systems can be linked together), they pose a

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    dumps his/her stock as buyers leap in before it collapses.

    This scam is different in that it uses an image to bypass anti-spam software and experts say that it could bring the internet to a virtual standstill by the end of this year. "Image spam" now represents 35 per cent of all junk email.

    So why are these image scams so menacing to the Internet? The reason is Botnets! According to honeynet.com "A botnet is a network of compromised machines that can be remotely controlled by an attacker. Due to their immense size (tens of thousands of systems can be linked together), they pose a

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    ual standstill by the end of this year. "Image spam" now represents 35 per cent of all junk email.

    So why are these image scams so menacing to the Internet? The reason is Botnets! According to honeynet.com "A botnet is a network of compromised machines that can be remotely controlled by an attacker. Due to their immense size (tens of thousands of systems can be linked together), they pose a

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    Some researchers estimate about 10 per cent of the world's 650 million online computers are botnet victims. That's 65 million computers unknowingly sending out spam. They say this year has already shown just how large the networks are after one of the biggest crashed, resulting in a 30 per cent fall in spam for the week it was disabled.

    There are many different uses for botnets but research has shown that the most common uses were criminally motivated or for destructive purposes. Botnets pose a serious threat. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are one such threat. Even a relatively small botnet with only 1000 bots can cause a great deal of damage.

    What makes this so utterly astonishing is that people actually, after all

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