[Intrusions] Interesting little piece of malware...

[Chris Norton]

Matthew,

Indeed you are correct. I was just stating that it was one way for
infection. For example:

Infected laptop connects to Uni. network, infected laptop then connects to
IRC channel.
Infected laptop gets command to spread, Uni. computers are now vulnerable.
R-bot also uses weak passworded shares to spread besides other common
vulnerabilities.

> it would not have come across in an email

We can't rule this out either as someone might have emailed what they
thought was a crack but was indeed R-bot to a friend in the campus.
Unlikely yes but still possible.
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Chris Norton
UAT Student Software Engineering Network Defense