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that brings up possible legality issues, as you're now executing
commands on the victim PCs, even if all you're doing is executing a
kill/uninstall feature -- I think it's best, for future forensic work
to leave the bots as is without interference.

On 3/3/06, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Yanno, Most bot code I've seen has a 'kill' or uninstall feature built
> in.
>
> It might be an idea to built a "counter" botnet, that will act in our
> favor when a botnet is found. We could have a bot infiltrate the
> existing net, and attempt to issue a number of kill/uninstall commands,
> so the net will eat itself.
>
> *shrug*
>
> -dan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Raef [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 9:00 AM
> To: Gadi Evron
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [botnets] is there a list of botnet hostnames somewhere ?
>
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> Oh yeah, this is a litigious society.
>
> We would have to establish rules for determining a botnet. We'd remove a
> host when we've confirmed the traffic has been stopped.
>
> I love that this mailing list is going. Nice job of getting things
> started.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gadi Evron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 10:56 AM
> To: Thomas Raef
> Cc: Famozo Pikantini; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [botnets] is there a list of botnet hostnames somewhere ?
>
> Thomas Raef wrote:
> > I would be willing to support a list of known botnets on my site. Or
> > create a whole new domain, like botnetbusters.com or something else.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Some points of discussion:
> 1. Liability - what if you get sued?
> 2. Reliability - how do you make sure it's a botnet?
> 3. Continual reliability - how do you know when to remove a host?
>
> Etc. Etc.
>
> Like I said, we will do this if this first effort of a public mailing
> list succeeds, but I won't stand in the way of any other effort. I love
> diversity. :) _______________________________________________
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