I have just been reading about bot attacks in Wired Magazine (Nov 06). Scott Berinato wrote an article titled 'Attack of the Bots' on p. 171. These bots have the ability to create huge DDos (distributed denial-of-service-attacks) and one company called Blue Security had their site taken down by bots because they were trying to provide an anti spam service which tries to flood the spammer with data. Unfortunately the site and related ISPs and other network servers were all shut down in the process.
Anyhow these things are real nasty and basically are controlled on high by Command and Control (C&C) operational software which usually move servers often to frustrate those trying to stop the bots. Even if you shut down one of these operational software programs there may be another one lurking somewhere else.
When the botnet underground means business and it is probably best to stay out of their way.
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