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- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >All, what is the relationship between RATware and spambots such as >SpamThru? It seems that all of the definitions of RATware I find on the >internet are very similar to spambots that employ the spam cannon >technique. Will some well informed individual please put this into >perspective for me? > My first suggestion is to stop trying to classify this stuff into categories -- it simply doesn't fit with current Trojan/botnet scenarios. RATware, as you call it, is what all Trojans these days attempt to accomplish -- allow surreptitious remote control access to compromised PCs. And considering the fact that they also are "extensible" (meaning that they can subsequently download ANY additional functional components), anything is possible. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHppi4q1pz9mNUZTMRAsbZAKDR5+bVQVVlHoWI27Q/Ax5f/9W96gCgtFUp 0WaWnpJG+Ps8WF8wHKQdnG0= =yivV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
