On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:20, Gene Heskett wrote:
>They use these botnets to distribute spam, launch DDOS, or
whatever
>else their imagination came come up with. Either of those would
>contribute to an increase in bandwidth usage.
Humm, we were in fact subjected to a DDOS attack early last sunday
morning, which lead to the traffic servers demise & rebuild.
Got us listed at spamcop & our mail died.
Or more likely, your box was participating in a DDOS. Do
you have any idea what exploit might have been used to
install the programs you found?
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Les Mikesell
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