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Botnet on Botnet Action

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-not-hot dept.

Dausha writes "The Tech Web news site reports a story about Botnet turf wars. Botnets have been around for a while, and are increasing in severity. The latest innovation finds Bots capturing and securing host computers from other bots. Security includes installing software patches, shutting down ports, etc."

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  1. Re:Note to Editors by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Uhhh, not to be inflammatory and all, but who the fuck are you to take it upon yourself to install your own trojan? Remind me again why you should be trusted any more than the botnet creators? Why any 'admin' (on IRC, haha, an O:line hardly is a badge of merit or trust) would allow you to "replace" the botnet with one of your own? Sorry, I don't know you from a bar of soap, why should I even believe for a moment that your "clean up" act wasn't just you doing exactly what the article is talking about, shutting down one botnet so you can have yours, and doing so in the guise of good? Or distributing another trojan of your own?

    Sorry, I'd come down on your ass just as hard as the botnet creator's. Guess what? You COMMITTED A CRIME. You blew it off in the name of "making the IRC servers you use more useful", and if your work actively damaged (further) someone's computer, "oh well", at least your IRC server ran cleaner, huh?

    Explain to me why you should get a free pass for computer trespass?