full-disclosure - Re: Know Your Enemy: Tracking Botnets (ThorstenHolz)

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Message-ID: <1168024316.20050314220139@phreaker.net>
From: mastah at phreaker.net (Egoist)
Subject: Re: Know Your Enemy: Tracking Botnets
	(ThorstenHolz)

Hello Valdis,

Monday, March 14, 2005, 9:51:20 PM, you wrote:

VKve> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:22:26 +0300, Egoist said:

>> > >> We start with an introduction to botnets and how they work, with
>> they work perfectly if coded not by kids, they use crypted
>> communication, most of them moving to p2p technology to eliminate
>> servers
>> i dont say about that lame toolz like agobot and friends

VKve> Have to admit, for such a lame tool as agobot, it's certainly nailed a lot
VKve> of systems. ;)

Lot of systems? Where you get that statistic ? How do u analyze that?
Antivirus software catched agobot on some computer and you just increment counters? So
if it isnt catched it seems like computer is clean? _Do_ you
really sure your computer is not part of big botnet where stealthness
is the premium function?

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 Egoist                            mailto:mastah@...eaker.net