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17 • BotHunter (by Michael Dotson on 2008-12-08 13:54:14 GMT from United States)
This is a side issue to todays Distrowatch. I recently came across a story in the NY Times on-line web-page about a program callled BotHunter that works across all platforms, including linux. The obvious purpose is to hunt down malware. A live CD version based on Ubuntu is available as well as a tar.gz package. Perhaps I am just behind the curve, but I have never heard of this program until today and was wondering if anyone has had experience with it, and if so how well it works? The address is www.bothunter.net, and for the live cd as follows
: # * Live CD Distribution v1.0.2 (Official Release) - 17 November 2008
# BotHunter-LiveCD.v1.0.2.torrent [bittorrent only - 665.3MBs]
# (torrent file MD5 = 8617b7ca4c996a4b43cf42589c06beff)
# (ISO Image MD5 = 137c96d67d0f8605042a8cb92a3bf8dc)
# Live-CD: this is a self-booting ISO image of BotHunter operating on Ubuntu
Linux
ping!
mark for later use - thanks!
Not sure about bot networks. But something strange is happening on an old e-mail account of mine. The e-mail in the in-box shows my old e-mail address as the source of the e-mail. In other words, I log in to my old xyz123@provider.com account, and there are e-mails in there from xyz123@provider.com that I know I didn’t send. Is there a way to determine whether or not that account has been hi-jacked?
Hey, isn’t that how the machines took over the world in The Terminator? What hell hath the spammers unleashed on us now!
Thanks for posting.
Bookmarked.
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Re: bots on Macs
I am very skeptical about the claims of finding ‘bots on Macs. If this were true we would have heard of it before. Developing a major app like this with so many cross platform and cross processor ( both Intel AND PowerPC?) for simutaneous release is not an easy task. I cannot believe that these Mac spambots have somehow been overlooked by Secunia, Symantec, et al. It sounds like FUD to me.
I’m on my iPhone right now but I’ll ping the Mac list when I get home later today.
In reference to post #28, can the Admin Moderator put a *warning* on this post, at the top!!!
fyi ping!
Some here are going to take a serious look at this ....
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