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Alert over Spybot worm
News It can be used by miscreants as part of a network of bots, or 'botnet', to relay spam and launch cyber attacks. More than 43,000 new variants of such insidious programs were found in the... [30 Nov 2006]
Zombies are after your ID
News The report also describes how the researchers monitored the bots and intercepted communications. Moreover, there is a trend toward smaller numbers of... [15 Mar 2005]
MySQL worm spread halted
News A group of computers controlled by bot software, known as bots or zombies, disrupted internet service provider Akamai's network in June. Such programs are numerous (Symantec's catalogue holds more than... [31 Jan 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The ever-evolving virus
Comment To my mind it is time to derive and define a 'killer bot' capable of sniffing out and neutralising offending bots, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware and spam programs. Yes, we now have thousands of... [20 May 2004]
Google's crown confirmed by 'new' rating system
News The metrics firm also said its methodology would weed out multiple identical queries by the same searcher, along with searches performed by other search engines and searches performed automatically by... [30 Apr 2003]
Slapper worm stops slapping
News Some attack programs, frequently referred to as bots or rats (remote access Trojans), are used by hackers who frequent the internet chat scene, and can communicate with... [20 Sep 2002]
The A-Z of ebusiness (Q-R)
News Some programs that perform automated tasks are referred to as robots or 'bots'. This is where programs currently in use by a computer are kept. If you turn a... [01 Jan 2002]
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