In article . TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Greg Skinner :
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: As for myself, I cannot really picture
>> 'five hundred thousand zombie computers scattered across three
>> continents'. If so, under whose coordination? A gang of crackers all
>> working in concert to cheat some advertiser's competitor, by running
>> up his advertising bill? Seems sort of improbable to me. PAT]
> It's not so hard to imagine if you consider the way viruses are spread
> to launch spam, DDoS attacks, etc. The virus authors or cracker-gangs
> aren't necessarily working to cheat competitors; they're just being > disruptive.
Five thousand zombie computers scattered across three continents? We call that Roadrunner.
--scott "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Five _hundred_ thousand, not five thousand. PAT]