BS: Bot Blocker

Subject: BS: Bot Blocker
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 09:06 PM

It is the patriotic duty of all real Americans who own a computer of any kind that has access to the internet to immediately purchase a Bot BLocker.

What are Bots?... They are YOUR computer once infected by an EXE
program or an innocent looking GGW downloaded jpg.

What do Bots do?... Your computer with invisible bots inside will
follow the commands of terrorists or enemy foreign countries.

What will Bots do? ...They will send commands as instructed to turn
off the cooling systems of a Nuclear Power Plant or cause electrical transformers to overheat and shut down or explode.
They can swamp the websites of certain banks or critical security systems of the country by overloading the site until it can allow no
access at all.
It could tell our bio weapon labs to reverse the negative pressure
fail safe fans and allow all the deadly virus to be pumped out of the lab into your neighborhood.


Basicly a bot can do every evil that international evil minds can think up.

PROTECT YOUR COUNTRY
BY PROTECTING YOUR COMPUTER!

Buy BOT BLOCKER TODAY before its too late.
$24.99 is a small price to pay to save yout loved ones
as well as the entire country








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(I bet its only a matter of time...sigh)

Subject: RE: BS: Bot Blocker
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 10:19 PM

so...to protect large stringed instruments, you'd need "Botticelli"?




I'm just leaving, don't need a coat...it ain't far.

Subject: RE: BS: Bot Blocker
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 10:36 PM

LOL...both of you!

Subject: RE: BS: Bot Blocker
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 10:46 PM

I do not know the % of computers out of 100 are already subject to bot commands.

Sometimes you volunteer your computer to spend time sorting data for SETI or come other research, but bots are uninvited and outside your awareness.

Bots are the tools used by organized crime, Russian mafia extortionists and others.


I do not think there is any protection specific to bots since things like Norton and McAfee are supposed to pick these things up...
but I understand they get through to your computer anyway, mostly hibernate and then spew their venom in unison with other bots.

Subject: RE: BS: Bot Blocker
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 10:47 PM

Could they be BOTtled?

Subject: RE: BS: Bot Blocker
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 10:49 PM

I have about 3 types of protective programs working constantly, and a couple more I run now & then to watch for various malware. I also don't go places where bots hang out...usually

Subject: RE: BS: Bot Blocker
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 05:28 AM

Thought this might be a Spaw thread, on how to control farts.

Subject: RE: BS: Bot Blocker
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 07:34 AM

Up to date information is a little hard to find, but a Symantec White Paper covers what went on in 2008 pretty thoroughly.

White Paper, 2008 PDF (110 pages 3.94 MB, full title "Symantec Global Internet Security Threat Report: Trends for 2008, Volume XIV, Published April 2009)

Some bits:

Symantec observed an average of 75,158 active bot-infected computers per day in 2008.

China had the most bot-infected computers in 2008, accounting for 13 percent of the worldwide total.

Buenos Aires was the city with the most bot-infected computers in 2008, accounting for 4 percent of the worldwide total.

In 2008, Symantec identified 15,197 distinct new bot command-and-control servers; of these, 43 percent operated through IRC channels and 57 percent used HTTP.

Of any browser analyzed in 2008, Apple® Safari® had the longest window of exposure (the time between the release of exploit code for a vulnerability and a vendor releasing a patch), with a nine-day average.

Mozilla browsers were affected by 99 new vulnerabilities in 2008, more than any other browser; there were 47 new vulnerabilities identified in Internet Explorer, 40 in Apple Safari, 35 in Opera™, and 11 in Google® Chrome.

In 2008, Symantec detected 55,389 phishing website hosts, an increase of 66 percent over 2007.

In 2008, bot networks were responsible for the distribution of approximately 90 percent of all spam email

A bot-infected computer is considered active on a given day if it carries out at least one attack on that day. This does not have to be continuous; rather, a single such computer can be active on a number of different days. A distinct bot-infected computer is a distinct computer that was active at least once during the period. In 2008, Symantec observed an average of 75,158 active bot-infected computers per day (figure 6), a 31 percent increase from 2007. Symantec also observed 9,437,536 distinct bot-infected computers during this period, a 1 percent increase from 2007.

Lets look at that last line again:

SYMANTEC … OBSERVED 9,437,536 DISTINCT BOT-INFECTED COMPUTERS DURING THIS PERIOD (2008).

Note that these are extracted "bits" from the opening summary pages of the paper. Details given later may clarify the real threat resulting from each of the above summary statements, with some appearing either more or less astonishing than might be the appearance from the out of context summary bullets.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Bot Blocker
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 10:41 AM

Poker sites were the first victims of criminal extortion. If they did not pay up 30 grand or so, the bots would shut down the sites.
Then bigger prey like banks were attacked. It can be almost any big firm that can pay who will be attacked today.

It can e the DOD, Treasury, infrastructure.

We have a 23 old kid working to defeat bot attacks in America but finding the criminals is still a very difficult task.

Usually they are Russsian or ex Soviet block. China has state sponsored hackers like army geek troops.

John's sleuthing is eye opening.

Subject: RE: BS: Bot Blocker
From: Mr Happy
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 10:56 AM

More civilised, I think https://www.imodium.com/