Dark Reading: Bots Hard To Kill -- Even When Botnets Get Decapitated

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Despite the wave of major takedowns this past year, botnets are still thriving with a seemingly endless supply of bots available to feed the beast

Oct 15, 2010
By Kelly Jackson Higgins

When the Waledac botnet was dismantled by a security community-wide effort earlier this year, spam traffic immediately and discernibly dropped in a big way. But the researchers who worked in the trenches to shut down the botnet acknowledge that these takedowns are more of a temporary, short-term solution to a much bigger problem: the difficulty of completely eradicating these networks for cybercrime with such a bounty of available bots and bot candidates.

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