[88855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: and here are some answers [was: Quarantine your infected users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Tue Feb 21 09:04:31 2006
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:01:16 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Jess Kitchen <jess.kitchen@adjacentnetworks.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060221135238.O5702@nebulus.adjacentnetworks.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Jess Kitchen wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Gadi Evron wrote:
>
>> Hi Simon, this is indeed a Windows problem due to Microsoft being a
>> mono-culture in our desktop world. Still, there are botnets
>> constructed from other OS's as well. Also, C&C servers are mostly *nix
>> machines.
>
>
> Does 'mostly *nix' hold true of the fast-flux or throwaway technique
> recently mentioned?
That is a very interesting question, and I will have an answer for you,
I hope, soon.
Gadi.
