Re: Botnets

[Laurens Vets <laurens () daemon be>]

Hello Munyaradzi,

> Can someone please explain to me how botnets use IRC? I want to make a
> presentation to my group demonstrating this in my lab which comprises
> of 4 winxp boxes. Unpatched. How are commands issued via IRC?

Simply put, as soon as your pc is infected, it will open an IRC 
connection to some IRC server just like a real life person would do...

One example of how this happens can be read here: 
http://www.honeynet.org/node/54

Do a search for "tracking botnets" on Google and you'll see lots of 
papers and articles about how bots communicate which each other.

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