Is Your Computer a Zombie?

It sounds like a low budget B-movie from the 1950's but it is true. In a report from the Honey Pot Project over one million home computers are zombies controlled by malicious attackers. The zombie computers are used to propagate viruses, send spam and launch denial of service attacks. The only thing the unwitting owner of one of these zombie computers notices is that their system seems sluggish. If you have a broadband connection such as cable or DSL and you do not have a firewall your computer may already be a remote controlled attack zombie. Read the article here.