Friday, February 23, 2007

Trojan Forced PCs to Take Part in Climate Research Project

Via heise Security News.

These days, if a Windows PC is infected with a trojan, it is quite likely that it will be used as a bot in a spam army to distribute advertising e-mails. But in some rare cases, the computer may suddenly find itself having to perform calculations of weather forecasts in a cluster.

A moderator of the distributed computing project climateprediction.net has reported just such a case.


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