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Two Worm "Families" Make Up Most Botnets

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-can't-they-fight-eachother-instead-of-us dept.

JMoon writes "HNS has an article about the Sdbot and Gaobot families which are responsible for most botnets worldwide. These two families were responsible for 80 percent of detections related to bots during the first quarter of 2007. Other culprits, although on a much lesser scale, included Oscarbot, IRCbot or RXbot."

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  1. FROSTY PISS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pouring up a tall mug of the frosty piss since 1997.

  2. And what about RObots? by Todd+Fisher · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They're everywhere and they eat old people's medicine for fuel. I don't even know why the scientists make them.

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    --I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield.-
    1. Re:And what about RObots? by YourMotherCalled · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The Royal Tenenbaums is my favorite movie of all time!!

  3. Isn't the most prevalent worm, the by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GeorgeWBushnet worm?

  4. Spelling Nazi by skeevy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Though you may have learned that the plural of 'octopus' is 'octopi' and the plural of 'cactus' is 'cacti', the plural of 'virus' is viruses, not 'virii'. In fact, the -i pluralization is optional; the -es pluralization is standard.

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