U.S. invades Georgia! (with infected PCs)

September 23, 2:46 PMBusiness ExaminerDarrell Proctor

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Georgia moved to block Internet traffic from Russia when the latter made military moves last month. Seems Georgia wanted to block Internet denial-of-service attacks from its neighboring - and now hostile - state.

But this report says Georgia should have been targeting a far greater Web menace: the United States.

SecureWorks, an Atlanta-based information security services provider, has released a list ranking countries with the most infected computers enlisted for use with botnets, those nefarious software robots.Topping the list? The good ol' US of A.

According to SecureWorks, the United States has more than 20 million botnet-compromised PCs. China is at No. 2 with about 7 million.

Russia is at No. 7.

The rest of the top 10, after the U.S. and China:

• Brazil
• South Korea
• Poland
• Japan
• Russia
• Taiwan
• Germany
• Canada