McAfee's Libel Against Open Source Apr 15, 2008, 21 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (4342 reads) (Other stories by Matt Asay)
"Over the weekend Stuart Hicks emailed the OSI about an odd statement made by McAfee in its white paper on botnets:
"Taking the bot controller offline may kill a botnet. As a result, many bots use a Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) or have a list of backup IP addresses to survive such an event. Bot technology is rapidly evolving, often aided and abetted, unfortunately, by the open-source movement..."