Net-awareness

Do you know that at this very moment, hackers could be using your computer to launch an attack upon a server? Well, before reading this very interesting article (thanks for the link, Ben), I didn’t. And I can promise you that upon reading it, I ran a few simple checks which luckily (*phew!*) were negative.

I heartily recommend that you spend the time necessary to read the article – and if you’re lost in the technicalities, go straight down to the bottom to find out how to check that your windoze machine isn’t carrying a zombie…

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