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Antivirus Pro 1.0

Antivirus Pro 1.0

...the long-awaited Antivirus Pro!- HD Graphics!- Two new Virus: Polymorph and Bot Net !- Three new Towers: Reboot, Ice and Logic Bomb !- Three new Maps... Read more

8 October, 2011
A Real-Time Rescue System: Towards Practical Implementation of Robotic Sensor Network

A Real-Time Rescue System: Towards Practical Implementation of Robotic Sensor Network

...paper, the authors present a real-time monitor and rescue system, TELOSW-BOT NET, utilizing integrated networks Read more

11 August, 2011
WDA: A Web Farm Distributed Denial of Service Attack Attenuator

WDA: A Web Farm Distributed Denial of Service Attack Attenuator

...for more than 10 years. Such attacks are carried out by a ''Bot-net", an army of zombie hosts spread around the Internet, that overwhelm... Read more

1 June, 2010

Telewest responds to virus problems

High-speed customers of ISP blueyonder will have their security managed for them, after Telewest decided to offer free managed anti-malware services Read more

23 August, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

ZombieMeter keeps tabs on hacked PCs

CipherTrust is trying to keep a record of hijacked PCs - no mean feat with over 170,000 machines being compromised every day Read more

27 May, 2005 by Joris Evers

Web outage blamed on zombies

...other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net" -- a large network of zombified home PCs -- Internet infrastructure provider Akamai... Read more

17 June, 2004 by Jim Hu and Robert Lemos

Sick virus writer exploits London bomb blast

Trojan creates bot-net for sending spam... A virus has been spotted in the wild... Read more

9 July, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

Microsoft, Internet Pirates and Web 2.0+

...design of Windows from the beginning has been flawed. Consider the resulting bot-net zombies to be car-jacked vehicles on the “Information highway”. Now... Read more

10 June, 2009

Pirates on Board the M.S. MoneyTanker!

...Defender or other Anti-malware software on the system and remove the bot-net, the rootkit or what-have you. If the user doesn't... Read more

14 May, 2009

Security: The never-ending battle

...to a company, or simply using those machines as part of a bot-net to launch massive spam and spyware attacks. The IT administrator has... Read more

20 May, 2005 by Aaron Tan
AlarmDisk 2 2

AlarmDisk 2 2

...are running on the system. This aids in virus, malware, Trojan and bot-net detection User and System Accounts monitoring -AlarmDisk 2 keeps track of... Read more

7 May, 2010

Opinion: Is cybercrime unstoppable?

...such 'zombies'. In September 2004 a Norwegian internet company shut down a bot-net controlling 10,000 machines. And SpamHaus estimates suggest 50,000 new... Read more

11 April, 2005 by Simon Moores

MyDoom: The virus that changed the world

...or the launching of denial-of-service attacks. The creation of these 'bot-net' networks represented a coming together of virus writers, spammers and organised... Read more

26 January, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

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