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Originally Posted by photon
It's a tool that's probably pretty easy to get and use. It kind of depends on what the hacker is trying to accomplish though as to if they'd want to use it. Get a trojan on your computer so they can use it as a zombie to attack other computers? Probably not. Steal your World of Warcraft account info so they can take your stuff? Definately. There's usually much easier ways though to do most things hackers want to do, why go to the bother of hacking an individual computer when you can just send out dumb emails laden with phishing and trojans and keyloggers and eventually someone will click on them.
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yea, probably just my fears stemming from '80's hacker movies coming to the forefront
Same reason I don't go swimming in fear of rubbery looking mechanical sharks
