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When those programs were activated this week, the host computers were transformed into platforms for starting the attacks.
The host computers are most likely home PC's whose owners had no idea that their systems had been commandeered, experts said.
Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec Security Response, said that when computer security technicians pretended to have an infected machine and sent messages to the host computers, they found that one of the host computers that was still on line was redirecting them to a pornography Web site.
Scatter these around the host computers and, when someone wants to look at the file, he need recover only 100 of them to have enough data to reconstruct the file from scratch.
And though the experts feared the host computers might give out catastrophic instructions, like telling the infected machines to erase their hard drives or begin new attacks, Symantec Security Response, a team within the Symantec Corporation, the Internet security company, said the remaining three host machines had simply redirected computers to a pornographic Web site.
The world inside the host computers is an ideal environment for entrepreneurs, who can expect low barriers to market entry, few natural monopolies and an ability to rapidly develop new ideas that can turn into real products and services.
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