ZombieMeter Tracks Worldwide Zombie Computers

May 27th, 2005

CNET News reports that the Internet security company CipherTrust released the ZombieMeter, a new system that tracks traffic from hacked, or zombie-PCs, around the world. The ZombieMeter tracks the number of new zombies per hour and is designed to help identify Internet security threats.

“A zombie is a computer – typically connected to the Internet via a broadband connection and without any type of security software to protect it – that has been infected by a worm or virus and is used remotely to launch denial of service attacks and send spam and phishing e-mails. So far this month, CipherTrust has found an average of 172,009 new zombies each day.”

“The organization launched “Operation Spam Zombie” and plans to ask Internet service providers to quarantine zombies and to help users clean the PCs.”

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