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Stop the bots
Kelly Martin, 2006-04-18

Botnets are a major source of evil on the Internet, from spam, phishing attacks, virus propagation and denial-of-service attacks to the stealing of financial information and other illegal activity. Does disbanding them raise legal and ethical implications?

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Botnets: Not a four-year-old concept 2006-04-24
Anonymous
Botnets have existed for more than ten years. Anyone who knows what an eggdrop is knows what I'm talking about.

This article totally over emphasizes botnets. The real issue at hand is the lack of understanding and security inherent in personal computers and their users today. Remove the holes, an...

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