Trojan Forced PCs to Take Part in Climate Research Project

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via heise Security News.

[snip]

These days, if a Windows PC is infected with a trojan, it is quite likely
that it will be used as a bot in a spam army to distribute advertising
e-mails. But in some rare cases, the computer may suddenly find itself
having to perform calculations of weather forecasts in a cluster.

A moderator of the distributed computing project climateprediction.net has
reported just such a case.

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More:
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/85807/

- - ferg

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