Redbaron2
join:2004-06-14
Tacoma, WA
| Bot-nets are small
I also very highly doubt that they stopped the bot-net they more than likely just changed to hosts that used other ip numbers. If you take a look at altavista's site it still isn't back to normal, and yahoo's site didn't update for sevral hours afterward. The total of sites affected is more then just the handful mentioned in the news articles. Symantec, Macafee, and Gmail just to name a few more were also hit. These bot programs could just have been a test run for a complete Internet attack. A person posted before that they knew people that had a few thousand bots at there command. Just look at it this way a bot sending data from a infected machine has over 4000 ports to send out data onto the net. All those ports are not normally used by the computer for anything besides just being there really. I think that more companies should make spyware and the like software available to scan for such bots. Then again I wonder how long it will take AV makers to make software for smart phones? |
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Zunger
join:2003-08-24
Fayetteville, AR | netstat -a |
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keith2468
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-03
Winnipeg, MB
1 edit | reply to Redbaron2
Such software for finding trojans is available, although not foolproof.
Because there are no effective legal restraints on Internet criminals, they are able to act like private armies and build up attack tools faster than volunteers can write free tools.
Visit the BBR Security Forum for and follow the link "Before you post a HijackThis log follow these steps".
»Security »I think my computer is infected or hijacked. What should I do?
The real solution is either to make owners of computer security companies rich, with bandaid solution after bandaid solution, or to bring the rule of law to the Internet.
As for victim companies paying to make security software available for free -- maybe Internet users who were victimized by being unable to access Google, Yahoo, etc. should shell out the money to create such free software tools.
And then they can pay for the hardware upgrades to run the software. |
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