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Getting rooted by a drive-by dropper is fast becoming the predominate method of involuntarily joining a botnet. The simplest way to avoid this is to keep your computers up to date. Easier said than done? Well, it doesn't have to be.

November 11th, 2008
By Michael Kassner

I made mention in my article “Botnets: How to Get Rooted in One Easy Lesson” that most computers become rooted and part of a botnet due to an operating system or application vulnerability that could have been patched, but wasn’t. What I didn’t expect was to have several current real-world examples to back up my statement.

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