Joshua Corman, of IBM Internet Security Systems, says the people behind the one-year-old Storm worm are making MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER DAY on the backdoor Trojan. The revenue comes from the successful delivery of spam. Bill Gates is thinking about buying the company -- if he can find it. (I kid.)
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Something tells me that it's doubtful the creators of this virus are pulling in over a billion a year. That's about half of Google's operating income for 2005 -- let's not even try to imagine how anyone would try to launder that kind of cash.
I'd give it a go.
All that money just selling viagra?
In that photo there must be more than a 10 billon dollars!
What a business!
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