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Trojan bolsters botnet powers
December 17, 2006 — 8:01pm ET
The battle against spam is getting tougher thanks to more advanced technology like sophisticated botnets that can detect when a compromised server has been taken down, which then target the next vulnerable server. According to recently-published research, the new, intelligent botnet is tied to a Trojan called SpamThru.
For more on the latest spam Trojan:
- read the news at TechWeb
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