http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r10540264 en Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:57:17 EDT Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:57:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10555327 beowulf9 : Yes, I know what bot nets are. I'm not a clueless newbie.

My skepticism is directed at Akamai. Has there been any third-party confirmation that the outage was actually caused by a bot net rather than their own incompetence?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10555327 Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:23:58 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10543624 anon : www.grc.com.... its easy to shut it down if you are infected. The hardest problem was probably tracing down the ips of the infected server and allowing some one to look at it. You toss on a packet sniffer. Disable the NIC, ENABLE the nic. then you have the irc server name, channel, password, AND bot naming convention.

I did this before when a machine i had got infected ( the roommate put the machine on the dmz zone for some reason)

you get the cooperation of the irc server operator. problem fixed.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10543624 Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:01:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10540264 keith2468 : Is this the first you have heard of bot nets?

They are widely known to exist and have been used to attack less well defended companies.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10540264 Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:16:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10538400 beowulf9 : Is there any outside verification of the existence of this bot not or do we just have Akamai's word for it? Given the events of the last year and a half there's little reason to believe that corporations tell the truth.

Also, how, exactly, would Akamai "shut down" a distributed bot network? Maybe they have a huge distributed anti-bot bot net.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10538400 Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:46:49 EDT