Jun
23

AOL is Zombie Central

AolA new study states that America Online hosts more denial-of-service (DoS) spewing zombie PCs than any other ISP in the world. AOL users’ PCs topped both the U.S. and worldwide lists, accounting for 5.3% of DoS attacks worldwide, and 11.7% of attacks in the U.S. Of course, AOL spins this – "We’re the largest ISP on the planet," Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for AOL, says. "You’d expect us to have the most zombies." I would also expect that AOL has the majority of non-technical users, wouldn’t you?

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4 Comments to “AOL is Zombie Central”

  1. TheMadAdmin says:
    June 23, 2005 at 9:44 pm

    When I hear someone has AOL I ask why? People who have it don’t know that they shouldn’t want to have it.

  2. Jenny says:
    June 24, 2005 at 10:10 am

    Isn’t it for dummies?

  3. automatt says:
    June 24, 2005 at 7:56 pm

    For some reason, I haven’t been able to email anyone with an aol address for years. It just bounces right back.

    They are the only domain I can’t email. I figure I can live with that, so I set my server to bounce all emails from their domain right back at them, too.

    Do you think I am missing out?

  4. Guru says:
    June 24, 2005 at 9:18 pm

    Found your blog through blog explosion. I like it, keep up the good work.

    BTW, I hate AOL almost as much as Nazis and pickles.