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• FBI arrests Zombie pusher
  Friday 4 November 2005 – 07:56
  The FBI has arrested a 20-year-old man from Los Angeles for profiting from adverts pushed to compromised computers on a zombie network.
• Zombie PCs spew out 80% of spam
  Friday 4 June 2004 – 03:31
  Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management firm Sandvine out this week.
• Korgo raises zombie PC army
  Thursday 3 June 2004 – 03:59
  Anti-virus firms have raised the peril index of the Korgo worm up a notch following the spread of several new variants this week.
• Spies infiltrate zombie computer networks
  Wednesday 16 March 2005 – 08:59
  Fake "zombie" computer spies are infiltrating zombie networks and recording online exchanges between the networks and their human commanders.
• Bot controls 34,000 zombie computers in advertising fraud
  Saturday 20 May 2006 – 04:40
  Anti-virus software specialist Panda said that it has discovered a network of computers infected with Clickbot.A. The bot apparently uses a global network oif more than 34,000 zombie computers.
• Million dollar website attacked by zombie computers
  Wednesday 18 January 2006 – 09:15
  Alex Tew the creator of the milliondollarhomepage.com now has an almost million dollar headache. By selling advertisements in one-pixel increments, Tew quickly made one million dollars in about four months, but criminals are now taking notice. Last week hackers sent an email asking for $5,000 for them not to launch a denial of service attack.
• New zombie spam technique may send spam levels through the roof
  Thursday 3 February 2005 – 05:10
  If the warnings of security experts are to be believed, we are on the verge of a major onslaught of spam.