Re: RE: Nice RBN/Storm worm writup in ×× ×××-X/X-Mas Blog

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On Jan 11, 2008 2:45 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
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> - -- Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
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> > > 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 general
> is 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
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