Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

From a recent email I gather this is very off-topic, so I will try to 
be brief in my reply.

> (Geneva.CH.EU.*) since 3+ years. I can say from my experiences I couldn't
> make any kind of communication between botnets and spam. Most Trojan codes I
> have looked into doesn't have any command/action to make users send spam
> emails and such however they try infecting others by different ways that
> port 25 can't avoid.

Short answer:
Many of the infected systems have more Trojan horses installed than the 
original infecting agent. Many Trojan horses have spam-sending or 
relaying capabilities.. or even just anonymity capabilities or ID 
theft/DDoS options. Thing is, there are always more options that can be 
later installed.

As to you not seeing them.. I suppose it's as simple as you not seeing 
enough of them.. count your blessings.

        Gadi.