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Re: RE: Nice RBN/Storm worm writup in ×× ×××-X/X-Mas Blog
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:41:31 -0500
On Jan 11, 2008 2:45 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Nick FitzGerald wrote:Much as I am possibly perceived as a raving MS (among others) critic, it's only fair to give credit where it's due, and I try to do that as and where appropriate...Determining factors, underline causes and why things happened in generalis never easy, but it is clear MSFT had a hand in the critical mass of bring storm down to size *currently*.I think we should give them public credit.Yes and no. :-)
On the one hand, they helped lessen the number of bots for a brief period of time. On the other hand they do have programmatic root access to almost every bot on the planet.. -JP _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: RE: Nice RBN/Storm worm writup in ×× ×××-X/X-Mas Blog Paul Ferguson (Jan 11)
- Re: RE: Nice RBN/Storm worm writup in ×× ×××-X/X-Mas Blog Gadi Evron (Jan 11)
- Re: RE: Nice RBN/Storm worm writup in ×× ×××-X/X-Mas Blog Dude VanWinkle (Jan 13)
- Re: RE: Nice RBN/Storm worm writup in ×× ×××-X/X-Mas Blog Nick FitzGerald (Jan 14)