To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- >>Once a peer-to-peer based bot is publically available, people will probably >>shift even if IRC still works, as soon as one botnet proofed peer-to-peer to >>work. Peer-to-peer botnets are not neccisarily hard to maintain, you just need >>the script kiddie compatible GUI and all is fine. They are not easy to find >>either, if deployed well. > > > I disagree. Some do. Some did 3 years ago. Some never will. No matter how > complex or cool it is.. IRC still works and does it amazingly well and in > high scalability. > > The "not thumb rule" I provided proves itself right each and every time I > tried something against it. Control is the least of the problems > though. Detection becoming easier isn't. > > This is why in my opinion IRC will still be here for a while.
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