68 Gigabytes
By ArnY on Thursday 18 January 2007, 16:40 - spam - Permalink
68 Gigbaytes is the amount of email addresses f-secure downloaded from a server used by the medbot spam-virus.
Machines infected with Medbot use a client-server architecture. They connect to a central server to get further instructions as well as spam content and address lists. Then they get to the work of actually sending the spam.
The server addresses keep changing. Last week seek21.zootseek.com was used to serve e-mail addresses to the bots. While investigating the case last week, we downloaded some 68 Gigabytes of e-mail addresses from this
F-secure also discloses the client-server architecture used by medbot.
From F-secure