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Researchers Hijack a Drive-By Botnet (2 web pages)

The team gathered data on compromised pages and the would-be victims.

The researchers were also able to profile the typical victim of the network. Almost 64 percent of the visitors redirected to the researchers' servers were running Windows XP, while 23 percent were using Windows Vista. The next two most popular operating systems were Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard," which accounted for 6.4 percent of all visitors.
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The research suggests that users need to update more often, says UCSB's Vigna.

"Patches are very good at reducing the exposure of the end users, but users are not very good at updating their system," he says.

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