[70465] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Antivirus firms discover Bots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun May 16 11:31:48 2004
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 18:29:56 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405161623280.2032-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>Hmm, so if the AV discovers an active bot is it possible to take this a step
>further and locate the C&C and forward that info to relevant network operators?
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With some operators specializing hosting these, what good would that do
until the "big guys" start cutting them off at their borders?
Pete
