BotHunter is a free utility for

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, which aims at detecting

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activity within a network. It does so by analyzing network traffic and comparing it to patterns characteristic of malicious processes. Version 1.7.2 was current . An earlier version ran under Microsoft Windows XP, but was not mentioned on the Web site after the release of 1.7.2. In order to support this application, the developer,

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, had collected more than 10,000 samples of malware by 2008. The BotHunter Web site states that the software was made possible in part by a research grant from the U.S. Army Research Office.

References

External links

BotHunter website
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