Four months ago Microsoft scored a cyber coup. Its digital sleuths identified a “botnet”, or fake server, that had installed malware on computers worldwide, and then it worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and others to shut it down. To their alarm they discovered that no fewer than 12m — yes 12m — PCs were infected, according to Tom Burt, the company’s deputy general counsel.
4個(gè)月前,微軟(Microsoft)在網(wǎng)絡(luò)世界取得了一次成功。該公司的數(shù)字化偵察器發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個(gè)在世界各地許多計(jì)算機(jī)中安插了惡意軟件的“僵尸網(wǎng)絡(luò)”(也就是假服務(wù)器),隨后與美國(guó)聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局(FBI)及其他方面合作關(guān)閉了該網(wǎng)絡(luò)。微軟副總法律顧問湯姆?伯特(Tom Burt)稱,讓他們擔(dān)心的是,他們發(fā)現(xiàn)有至少1200萬(wàn)臺(tái)——沒錯(cuò),就是1200萬(wàn)——個(gè)人電腦已被感染。