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to the measures of updates added [to the bot].” Adding updates (and thus enhanced
value) is a further indicator of the modular style of botnets referred to in Section 7.7.1
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f this book, “A Modular Approach to Botnets: A Major Aid to Criminals.”
Major features of this particular bot reportedly included the following:
Installation of an HTTP proxy
Versatile administrative (“admin”) interface
e opportunity to create a service on the database of the admin interface
Convenient botnet statistics
A
percentage of good proxies out of a hundred downloads—around 50
Writes in self-download (the proxy ...