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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: >> So how do you connect to the real IRC server, then? Remember that most >> end users are not nslookup-wielding shell commandos who can figure out >> whois and look up the IP. > >If those users are so technically unsophisticated, do you really expect the other users with infected computers to figure out how to disinfect their computer and remove the Bots instead? > I would imagine that if we're talking about "unsophisticated" users, the majority of them have no idea what IRC is anyway -- most of them are using AIM, or Yahoo! IM, or.... - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGpO2Uq1pz9mNUZTMRArtXAKD/gF0YM9MYcLA6AZ2InaNBrlgaHACgngiP kzDzfUd+9BsdcbxDz1Z9xig= =OoHG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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