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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:19:31 -070 |
Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting wrote:
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Good article and scary too.
"Storm has a self-defense mechanism," Alperovitch says. "Any time
someone
probes the botnet too much, it reacts automatically and starts a
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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:57:40 -040 |
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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:26:08 -040 |
"Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote
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I wonder if we distributive computing process as used by SETI et al might be
used as a way to locate and ID botnets?
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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:36:51 -040 |
Frog Prince wrote:
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> I wonder if we distributive computing process as used by SETI et al might
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Well, it's probably a lot easier to keep tabs on zombies (bots) by
detecting their spam-sending @sses at the SMTP servers they're spewing to.
SpamCop is in a sense a big distributed detector of botnets, although it
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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:06:21 -050 |
"Frog Prince" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> I wonder if we distributive computing process as used by SETI et al might
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Why? SMTP logs and logs from DDOS attacks do that just as well, of course it
helps if someone actually uses them.
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