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Antivirus firms discover Bots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat May 15 19:45:50 2004
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 19:45:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I'm glad that anti-virus firms are noticing the growth of Bots.
Unfortunately, their guestimating ability is still woefully inadequate.
Even frequent updates to anti-virus software won't help. Many
bots disable automatic updates and block access to the antivirus
sites. By the time anti-virus software detects somethings wrong,
its already too late. The solution is to make certain your computer is
not compromised, instead of relying on anti-virus to clean it up later.
Antivirus firms warn of growing 'Bot' Networks
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20300880
