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Losing The Botnet War


virus9 The sophisticated SpamThru Trojan delivers a client that performs AV scans to get rid of rivals on a victim's computer and communicates through peer to peer technology. That is just one of many examples of bots that plague people from non technical web surfers to administrators of vast enterprise networks.

Those admins would like nothing more than to feed some of these bot creators feet first into a tree chipper and get away with it. But those creators do their best to stay well-hidden, and the software they write tries to work in similar fashion.

McAfee research Alyssa Myers wrote at the security software company's Avert Blog about bots and botnetting, and wondered if we as computer users have lost the botnet war.

"Certainly things are looking fairly grim as the rise in the number of variants of IRC bots has grown by leaps and bounds over the last couple of years," Myers said. "Strictly using string-based detection against the unending tide certainly appears to be a lost cause." Losing The Botnet War





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