To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Black Ratchet wrote: > To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------- > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 5:27am, Gadi Evron wrote: > > The good thing about IM botnets is that they run on controlled > > services, > > and that the people running them can stop them, if they so choose. > > The impression I got was while the point of attack was over AIM, the > botnet itself was IRC based.
Yes, the infected systems are likely still there but the infection/propagation is stopped. > > While AIM runs on a controlled system. I doubt AOL has the time, money, > or inclination to deal with it. Else they would have likely stopped a > lot of the other AIM worms that have been floating around for a year(?) > or so. Who said they don't? > > Plus, it's not like it's difficult to make gobs of new AIM accounts. (Do > they use some kind of CAPTCHA system? It's been ages since I signed up > for one.) Setting up new accounts to atttack others is non-trivial. I don't know.. you are right. > ~BR > _______________________________________________ > To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement > upon request. > http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets > _______________________________________________ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
