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Beware of Net-Zombie and Botnet

OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) announced, simple action of computer user for email and Internet can emergence problem that risk security system and business. That problem is malicious software (malware), a threat to the internet security. The action of crime-related data theft, a computer system spying and attacking to government and business. More than 20 years, malware has been successfully increased become criminal industry millions of dollars globally. This makes the cyber Criminal become rich and has the financial strength to make the damage greater. Even in the last five years, Criminal system activities increase to attack and steal information such as money and the identity of the victim.

Botnet, a group of malware which infect computer, also called a zombie or bots that can attack other computers remotely. Malware can spread the serious impact to all Internet users, such as, governments and home user. First malicious virus, “Brain” appeared in 1986 and in 1998 a worm “Morris” has been infected 6,000 computers. Development of e-mail (electronic mail) in 1990 have resulted worms “Melissa” or “MyDoom”. June 2006, Trojan horse has also been attacked files in Microsoft Windows users belong to the “My Documents” and the file has been encrypted, so users can not access the “My Documents”
One of the efforts to protect computers from cyber Criminal can install a firewall and anti-virus software for early invasion detection of viruses, spyware, or malware.