Fergie pointed us to: > 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.
This is far from new. I don't recall the malware names OTTOMH, but several variants of some of the early Windows bot-nets installed copies of distributed.net's "bovine" agent, signed up as members of teams presumably associated with the folk behind the bot-nets, Even way back then stealing CPU cycles for computationally heavy tasks was obvously desirable for certain folk... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
