A quarter of all computers in the world can be used in botnets.

About a quarter of all computers connected to the Internet may be members of botnets . This was stated by one of the creators of the World Wide Web Vint Cerf, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland).

At the same time, he added, the majority of users of infected machines do not even realize that their computers are used to organize distributed attacks, send spam and other malicious actions.

This problem is aggravated by the fact that it is very difficult to find (and prosecute) the organizers of botnets, writes Ars Technica .