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  • US Army Research Office’s BotHunter ( Malware detector)

    12/08/2008 9:47:54 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 80 replies · 2,452+ views
    Antispyware ^ | Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 at 12:53 pm | staff
    When malware spammers get out of control, what’s the best thing to do?Call in the US Army, perhaps?A free malware-detector called BotHunter, sponsored by the US Army Research Office, “works so well that it has even found infected Mac computers, much to the embarrassment of the Mac owners who, of course, swear that their computers cannot be infected with bots,” SC Magazine quotes Marcus Sachs, director at SANS Internet Storm Center, as saying.And there have been 35,000 downloads so far, the story has Phillip Porras, program director of enterprise and infrastructure security at SRI International, a research and technology organization,...