Monday, October 08, 2007

BotHunter: SRI International Scientists take on Spam Zombies

The San Francisco Chronicle article, "Techies take on spam zombies discusses BotHunter, a "is a novel, dialog-correlation-based engine (patent-pending), which recognizes the communication patterns of malware-infected computers within your network perimeter." BotHunter is for use by ISPs and was created by Phil Porras and Vinod Yegneswaran, computer scientists at SRI International.