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FBI to Battle Zombie Horde
Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:03PM EDT
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You may not know that your computer is sending spam, being used as a pawn in coordinated internet attacks, hosting illegal files, or otherwise part of the malware-distribution network known as the zombie horde. Some estimates peg the number of email spams sent each day at around 55 billion, the vast majority of which are sent by infected PCs, usually without any knowledge of it by their owner.
It's all part of what's known as a botnet, giant networks of malware-infected PCs that act as slaves to a master controller via the internet. These PCs, called zombies, are perhaps the biggest security threat on the internet today.
And now the FBI wants to do something about it. How? It's directly contacting a million PC owners to let them know what they ought to have known all along: That their computers are infected and are being hijacked for nefarious uses. The goal is to help track down the source of these infections and put the hackers responsible behind bars. "Operation Bot Roast" (love the name) has already led to the arrest of three scammers.
The feds have offered the same general advice that I do to those infected: Protect yourself against malware and viruses by using the appropriate security tools, and take extra precautions if you find your PC running slowly or sending emails you didn't create (check your Sent Items folder!).
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1 Posted by kennernow on Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:43AM EDT Report Abuse
I've heard of the SETI program using zombie computers as well. Could there be a connection?
2 Posted by jssiegel on Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:53PM EDT Report Abuse
Bravo! I urge all geeks to be helpful to anyone who asks for help purging malware and setting up their protective packages. SETI is very different - the users intentionally donate their unused CPU cycles and bandwidth, and can opt out if they wish.
3 Posted by rogueist on Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:28PM EDT Report Abuse
This is both great and scary - but they should issue a public statement and tell people to stop using Microsoft IE and Outlook, and use Safari, Opera or Firefox and Thunderbird instead, and tell them which exact problems they should install on their computers since the vast majority of people are totally illiterate when it comes to these things.
4 Posted by rogueist on Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:29PM EDT Report Abuse
problems = programs sheesh I dont know why that happens when I type - I swear I am typing the right words in
5 Posted by riverwest2 on Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:36PM EDT Report Abuse
Another thing to be uptight about. How about including information on how to tell if your computer is doing this?
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Human Trafficking RIGHT IN FRONT OF US

Something interesting and disgusting I saw today was a Lutheran bus loaded up with people one assumes to be refugees (see below) and it is these faith-based initiatives which take advantage of the down and out and which you are supporting with government funding that george and jebby support !!!











That way plenty of money disappears but very few are helped. Interesting that three government agencies are involved in this FAITH BASED initiative. Maybe some of you are a lot smarter than me and you KNOW what the office of ORR is. I did not. I surmised it had something to do with refugees and I was right. So right away on that site you'll notice they get right down INTO human trafficking. I know I can't be the only person who will notice and also discussed it with the bf that the people in this van look like victims of human trafficking. Oh, maybe we caught them in the middle of rescuing some victims. That must be it. You and me we're now funding faith-based initiatives funded by three SCARY govmint agencies. Here's the proof in pictures so you don't have to read any boring words. Religion (or some facsimile thereof) is all mixed up in our govmint. This is extremely dangerous. Where is the separation of church and state??? Tell me if you know.
Perhaps they could make the claim that Lutheran is not for the Religion Lutheran but merely the name of their service.

yeah, okay.


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But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.

Terrorist,"Cause" and Gang Stalking Perpetrated by Tampa Firemen and other Firemen -- revealed and written about.

Some more threats from Tampa firemen (we'll just drive by your burning house if we know who you are) no kidding? I would NEVER have guessed that !
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The Spin Teeters out of control

Just a reminder. When you read: Watch if the headlines match the rest of the story. Today Yahoo is running some BS HEADLINE (yeah yeah, I have to look at Yahoo news when I go to my mail .............. XCERPT REMOVED TO BELOW) about how Congress is polling lower with the Democrats in charge.

That's the headline. Actually THIS is:

Newly empowered Democrats draw wrath of voters but you get the idea. It's all the fault of them dems. YEAH !! After six years they've had not quite six months. Lil early to be pointing fingers. (someone said the same thing to me when I got on charlie crist's butt about civil rights restoration) look here, it's six months later --- do you see any restoration??? Tom Vilsak signed an Executive Order to restore civil rights. That's all Charlie had to do. That's it.

When the Democrats tried to stop the war BUSH vetoed the bill; let's try to keep that in mind, folks.

The gist of the article which most people won't get to entirely and don't think MSM (and especially TAMPA TRIBUNE) do not know this. I have an enormous collection of misleading headlines from the Tampa Tribune.

Another example: Whole books are written (read Vincent Bugliosi) but the one sentence on the cover of this particular 5thouuusand page tome reveals that it's an affirmation of the Warren Commission on the Kennedy murder(s). We're sposed to be stupid enough to believe that because this book is thicker than most peoples' heads that it MUST be true yet most people will only read that back cover. If it's worth ALL THAT MONEY to get that idea out ..... I hope you're following along.

Bruce Willis spoke out connecting 911 truth and the Kennedy Murders to those currently in power on approximately May 8th. *June issue of Vanity Fair which is and was very difficult to find*

Bugliosi's book (cheerleading the govmint version of JFK MURDER) came out on the 15th of May. Purely coincidental. LMAO !!!!

Anyhoo the article goes on to say how Bush and the Republicans thwart the Democratically controlled Congress at every turn. They are trying to lay the war off on the Democrats (sorry Republicans ain't gonna happen, this is YOUR war, guys. You and George.)

The article states that people are disgusted with the partisan bickering which I also attribute firmly to most Republicans. Democrats are united in ending the war (despite the fact that they are forced to fund it this quarter)

It also levels disgust at Bush for vetoing or threatening to veto every good change and for importing lots of thugs of his choosing, but giving genuine immigrants the shaft.

He's also not fooling me by his threats to veto the stem cell research which frankly, I'm not that stoked with. Too easy for a maniac to do the wrong thing. He threatens to veto something that he was celebrating in 2001. Right??

The point is: The Democrats only have so many votes. Republicans (who claim to dislike filibustering and blocking, or is that just DEMOCRATIC filibustering??) have fought change every step of the way.

In essence, the article reveals the duplicity of Republicans and of this regime but the headline reads of 'disappointment with the democratic congress'.

Which is not the case.

Don't just read the headlines. And, do me a favor. Watch the Tampa Trib. When they do the misleading headline thing, let them know you are awake. !!! Please.

Reid and Pelosi have sent a letter to george pleading him to work with them.

I think that calling the sergeant at arms to bring him before the body is the proper thing to do.

It's way past time.

The world is watching us.

What will we do?

I'm reading too much incendiary writing from people trying to spin for us to bomb Iran.

Who is next?

Who will we attack while I sleep at night?

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and today they also have some low-rate firemen on the front) I'd give you a big update on the firemen of Tampa but they're going to have to wait in line like everyone else for my attention. I don't CARE if they have big red things they try to race out in front of me with no warning so they can drive it right up to my other car. LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (oh my god how many fake calls will we log?? the whole hood of bikers droppin to the floor .. elizabeth elizabeth this is the big one .. i'm comin ......... Yall so funny. I especially liked the big troubled hands in the air gesture like I had done something wrong. Interesting because I have video of you from just the other day -- same exact circumstance -- waving me forward, rather impatiently.

Are you confused as to your job? (the job for which the county purports to pay you, I mean) I can guess which sentence of mine you don't like. For god's SAKE, that is hardly news. Google firemen busted. For god's sake. It's all over the place, all over the country. Don't try to pretend it's something I put out there !!! Pam didn't clean anything up, she institutionalized it. And if I wake up or walk up to one more incident of UNFRESH air at the voxer chateau ... we're gonna expand on it somewhat. The thing is your memories may be bad from all the corruption or corrosion but there's NO denying the video footage of the # of times you have done this. Get a clue. I don't CARE if I'm the only one left in the neighborhood you haven't managed to scare off. Get used to it. And I hope you have such a united front down at Sam Gibbons. It sure does impress the shit out of people when yall uniform up like that. I think the problem is they get to see (for a change cause you mostly HIDE now what yall are all about) It should be illegal to wear your uniforms to lobby, it's illegal for those wearing the armed services uniform to wear them off-duty. It's gangster-ish, just get sidearms and be done with it..... I felt sorry for those kids on the truck today. They look like captives. And I know they are. This can go in a WHOLE nother direction and that is up to you. Now, on to my regularly scheduled day. Don't try that hands in the air drama. I was learnin how to play from the best while you were still crawlin under the table crackin cat turds for candy. Some of you old guys there is no excuse. You should be deeply ashamed for selling more young people into your miserable future of chasing/stalking women and children. Oh, and it's all on video. LOL !!!! I'm really going to lose my whole sense of humor one day. Oh, I should add for laughs that one JT is not up for grabs and kicks. I said already if things continue in this direction .... (stop whoring out your children you MAY NOT steal from me no matter how long you whore your children around that delightful young person) If you continue to f with him, then prepare for the consequences. I will sit it on your doorstep (surprise !!! so many doorsteps) so fucking fast that you will wish you had a basement to hide in. You really don't want that. No, seriously, you really don't. You're creating problems where there weren't any and like everyone with right on their side, you'll need to understand that I NEVER have to let this go away. I may choose to but you will be pivotal in that decision. You have noticed a change in dealing with me as opposed to others, no? Have any of you sat around and ruminated on the reasons for that? you should. I will never again ask that you back up off of one JT. But I will take action. And you won't like it. I don't care if you are cooking whole goats in there but you WILL back up off me and mine. Obviously I DO NOT care that the entire county is comprised of scumbags it seems. Good. All of you together can afford to pay me properly. It's way time to talk that over, dontcha think? Time is on my side. And everything else, too. That's just how we roll.

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The City of Tampa and it's assorted city-sanctioned gang members need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.

Terrorist,"Cause" and Gang Stalking Perpetrated by Tampa Firemen and other Firemen -- revealed and written about.

Some more threats from Tampa firemen (we'll just drive by your burning house if we know who you are) no kidding? I would NEVER have guessed that !
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The future is unwritten.

Dear World Can't Wait Supporter,
This piece by Sunsara Taylor, on the World Can’t Wait Advisory Board, has been very widely re-printed over the last two weeks. One response: “I will try to read this daily to keep my priorities straight.”
This Is Not A Story About Cindy Sheehan
This is not a story about a woman who raised four children, sent one off to war, and collapsed one day in a fit of screaming at the news that he was dead.
This is not a piece to describe how that woman tried to stay awake for the next three days so as not to have to scream like that again after waking and then remembering that news.
There will be no attempt in this piece to comprehend the maddening indecency of the overgrown frat-boy president who sent her son to kill and die for lies and still had the gall to call her “Mom” and sits day after day-- to this day --as the self-appointed, unrestrained king of the world.
This is not a piece about a woman who exposed her grief and her rawest nerves, who sacrificed a twenty-nine year marriage and time with her remaining children, to a country calloused to the daily loss of life and succeeded in stirring many to their feet, into the streets, and to the tops of their lungs.
This is not a piece about how this woman parked herself in the dusty heat of a ditch in Texas and said yes to enough speaking engagements and phone calls from soldiers and late nights with grieving parents to send her own life teetering near its edge because she couldn’t live with herself if she didn’t give everything she could to prevent another mother from having to experience the loss that she knew.
This piece is not even about how her loss and her grief were not confined to her son, but extended each day further, to include the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, and further yet, to those cast in the impoverished margins of our planet--including the thousands of children dying each day from starvation--as the U.S. obscenely spends hundreds of billions on constructing and deploying the machinery of mass death.
Nor is this about the millions who learned this woman’s name, whose hearts broke with hers, but whose spirits were lifted and consciences were challenged by the way she seized the moral high ground and much of the spotlight from the world’s biggest liars and most pitiless killers because she was right and she was fearless--to hell with the odds.
This piece isn’t even simply about a culture that demonizes and attacks such a person, that makes their every word or slightest gesture grist for the dishonest mill of the small-minded bloggers, the jones for cruelty of the war-planners, and fascist propagandizing of the major media mouthpieces.
Nor is this about a society that props up mothers as “keepers of the flame,” a counter-balance meant to excuse the war-makers, only to turn on them and call them “whores,” should they dare to do more than weep silently.
This is not merely about this woman’s refusal to be corralled into “realistic” and empire-bound strategies like timetables or phased-redeployment, about her righteous refusal to excuse the funding of the war, about her simple and righteous insistence that the slaughter and torture of human beings stop right now.
And, no, this is not mainly about the many questions that she herself ran up against and has put straight up in front of the movement and that all too many don’t want to speak to. Like why the Democrats won’t bend to the will of the people, or what kind of system only allows for two sides of the pro-war position, or what to do about an American people who are well on their way to becoming Good Germans. Those questions are crucial and agonizing and there are answers to them that can be found or forged. And there is a need for a movement that encourages the debate to rage around these questions and insists on honestly and unsparingly confronting reality. A movement that insists on getting to, and telling the people, the truth.
No, throwing up your hands is never the right response. But to be perfectly honest, this piece is not about what Cindy Sheehan should be doing. Not when really there are 300 million other people in this country who each morning wake up with profound choices to make--and who make them every day, whether they know it or not.
So, no, this article is not about Cindy Sheehan.
This article is about you.
Reading on your computer screen. Smudging black ink off the newsprint in your hands. Breathing in and out, your chest rising even as the chests of other human beings who happen to have been born atop huge reservoirs of oil fall still, as their breath is stolen, as their land is ravaged, as their girls learn to fear their budding breasts and widening hips under the leer of the occupier’s eye, as their fathers lose their minds trying to comprehend the life-danger they’ve become to their own children for being of a different religion than their mother, as the psyche and politics and view of what kind of world is possible, as a whole country and region is forever marked by the apparent indifference of way too many Americans to their sustained destruction… as millions who are also heart-sick flirt with the devastating and impermissible comfort of throwing up their own hands and looking away from the war zone…
This article is about you--because frankly, there is not enough space and not enough time and not enough ink and not enough trees to make enough paper to hold all the ways that the roadblocks hit by a woman like Cindy are a sign of failure. Not of the failure of the possibility for change, nor the failure of those who put everything on the line to make all this stop, but the failure of a society that does not cherish and have room for a woman like her. And the failure of continuing on a course that does not fundamentally challenge the killing confines of the choices this system puts before us.
So, again, this is about you--whether you will hide behind and resign yourself because of the faltering of another or whether you will step into the breech.
This article is about what you think about and do when you wake up each morning. About whose lives you value and prioritize. About whether it is sufficient to register disapproval or whether you are responsible for stretching your limits, risking friendships and family if you must, confronting discomforting truths about this political system, and whether you will dare to inspire and challenge and set an example of living for and impacting something bigger than yourself.
This is about whether you know enough and have seen enough of other people’s sons and daughters dying in the service of empire to say without equivocation that all this must halt. This is about whether you will plunge into and confront the dead-ends that have led so many to disorientation--whether you will look deeper, consider radical solutions, even ones you might once have dismissed.
And, yes, it can seem at times like we are hurling our soft bodies and our embattled dreams up against cold rock, and like the forces aligned against us are made of impenetrable marble. But marble has fissures and fault-lines and cracks deep beneath the surface and these can be located and the marble itself can be pried apart by the determined action of millions who dare. So I am struck again with the truth and the enormity of our choices captured in the final words of the World Can’t Wait Call: “History is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.”
The war is still wrong.
What are you going to do?
Sincerely,Debra Sweet Director,The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime
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The City of Tampa and it's assorted city-sanctioned gang members need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.

Terrorist,"Cause" and Gang Stalking Perpetrated by Tampa Firemen and other Firemen -- revealed and written about.

Some more threats from Tampa firemen (we'll just drive by your burning house if we know who you are) no kidding? I would NEVER have guessed that !
Stop Organized Stalking
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