By LEV GROSSMAN

During the week of Jan. 15, an innocuous-looking e-mail appeared in thousands of inboxes around the world. Its subject line read, "230 dead as storm batters Europe." The e-mail came with a file attached, bearing a plausible-sounding name like Full Story.exe or Read More.exe. Plenty of people clicked on it. After all, storms really were battering Europe at the time; that week high winds and rain had killed 14 in the U.K. alone. But all great cons have a grain of truth in them somewhere.

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If the statistics from Microsoft’s MSRT (malicious software removal tool) are anything to go by, the Storm Worm botnet is not quite the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

The tool — which is updated and shipped once a month on Patch Tuesday — removed malware associated with Storm Worm from 274,372 machines in the first week after September 11. In all the tool scanned more about 2.6 million Windows machines.

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Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence.

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Organizations like the Spamhaus Project and Surbl.org have been under attacks for months, but they've managed to stay online.

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