Infected PCs for Rent

prostoalex writes "UK authorities are raising concerns about entire networks of infected and compromised PCs (BotNets) being available for sale or rent to the highest bidder. The Register quotes a detective from Hi-Tech Crime Unit saying 'The trade of BotNets of compromised machines is becoming an industry in itself. Organised crime is making use of this industry.'"

I'm going to rent a bunch of these

[Anonymous Coward]

Install distcc, and install Gentoo in record time.

Gives a whole new meaning

[overshoot]

to "on-demand computing."

Kinda sad to see IBM, HP, and others lagging so badly in commercializing this important new technology.

The real culprits...

[D-Cypell]

Good to see big industry players using their expertise and experience to enable new market creation.

Damn

[Beer_Smurf]

Damn, one more thing I can't do with my mac.

Kiss Me, I'm Redundant

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure this will be redundant by the time it's posted, but at the bottom of the article:

The new Microsoft Partner Programme is here. Bringing all the advantages of previous programmes into a single framework, we've made it easier than ever for Partners to engage with Microsoft.

With three levels to choose from, you can select the one that works best for your organisation.

Become a Registered Member today. No fee. No obligation. Just clear business benefits, including:

Free business-critical telephone support (charged at national rate)

Free online technical support

Online sales and marketing resources

Sales and technical training

For more information, please visit: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/programme

Re:I'm going to rent a bunch of these

[irokitt]

On the same note, SETI@home is also interested.

Re:I'm going to rent a bunch of these

[Lord_Slepnir]

you mean in under 8 hours???

destructive worm

[Anonymous Coward]

what we need is a good destructive worm to take care of these. "sorry, you're too stupid to use the internet, deleting harddrive."

Re:Terrorism?

[nil5]

Me? I'm pulling IPv4 stakes up. Only been spammed once by someone with an IPv6 address.


Looks like the only person using IPv6 is a spammer!

Re:Shouldn't the vice department handle this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not that any of us Slashdotters would know anything about prostitutes... hahaha.... hahaa... ha.

Sorry Kids.

[platypibri]

You cannot rent these to get those outrageous URT2K4 frame rates you all crave so much. However, it does make me think about writing a "bail me out" script to log some of these machines on a game server as my "back up". Hmmm....

Despite all this ...

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia computers rent you.

Awesome

[shadowmatter]

Whole warehouses of infected PCs for sale? Sweet. I think I'm gonna hit up this place right after I swing by the used syringe lot.

- sm

Infected PC's for Sale???

[WwWonka]

I find this article on infected PC's/networks for rent so full of sh..#$.\10# \AE \3H......

Welcome!

This PC is for rent.
Please contact us at

www.Claria.com [claria.com]

Re:I'm going to rent a bunch of these

[Anonymous Coward]

Stage 2? That's cheating. :) Stage 1 or nothing!

I told you!!!

[DAldredge]

I told you /. was a DDOS front! Most of these 'stories' are placed by competiors of the companies linked from the stories...

I TOLD YOU!!!

A comedy in One Part.

[YankeeInExile]

Scene: A Courtroom

Bailiff

The first court of Onlineia is now in session, Honorable Judge Foo presiding.

Judge

I have read your complaint. Let's hear from the plaintiff.

Plaintiff

Thank you, your honor. In our case, we intend to prove that the defendant, in violation of our terms of service, removed the viruses we had gone through great trouble to install and operate on a network of computers, leading to considerable monetary damages in the sum of $1.2 million

Judge

You may call your first witness

Plaintiff

Thank you, your honor. We call J. Random Hacker

Bailiff swears in J.R.H.

Plaintiff

Mister Hacker. Did you, on 21 May 2004 rent for exclusive use, twenty-four hours of access to our BotNet DeLuxe service?

JRH

I did

Plaintiff

And what was your intention when you rented use of the cluster?

JRH

Well, at first I just wanted to set up a program to repeatedly check the home page on slasdot, trying to get first post

Plaintiff

And how did you go about that?

JRH

Well, I wrote this monster of a VB Program, but it was really buggy and I could not get it to work, so I decided to switch to Ruby

Plaintiff

And what happened next?

JRH

Well, I chose to install Geekdist Linux 12.11 because it came with the toolchain I was accustomed to

Plaintiff

But, did you not agree, when you rented this exclusive access not to damage our network in any way?

JRH

I guess so ...

Plaintiff

And would you not consider removing our access to these machines a form of damage?

JRH

No, sir, I do not. I consider the machines upgraded

Plaintiff

No further questions.

... write your own ending.

I think a good path for D. to take would be to show that P. does not have standing to bring the case in the first place, but that probably would have come up in pretrial motions... I have to go work

Re:There is a solution

[moxruby]

Sounds like a "preemptive strike", shouldn't have trouble getting that one through congress ;-)

I'm selling mine

[dragin33]

... for $12/h. Who wants it?

Re:Terrorism?

[PurpleFloyd]

"Speculation is worth nothing"

Jeez, you must be really new here, huh?

Re:Terrorism?

[Anonymous Coward]

this is Vladimir Borshevski
we have noted your slashdot identification number
if you do not stop suggesting in your slashdot posts that legitimate russian business men are involved is such illigitimate adtivities then we will be forced to post a link to your personal homepage on slashdot front webpage (we own taco). you can avoid such unplesantness by sending me check for 200 american dollars.
Vladimir

Re:microsoft

[BenjyD]

Security guards in my building (university engineering dept) do this - they test the doors of all the offices they walk past. If one is unlocked, they walk in and leave a note on the desk saying "I could have been a thief - keep your door locked when you're not in"