High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! BotHunter is a free utility for Windows XP and Unix, which aims at detecting botnet activity within a network. It does so by analyzing network traffic and comparing it to patterns of known malwares. In order to support this application, the developer, SRI International, has collected more than 10,000 samples of malware. A Botnet is a collection of software agents, or robots, that run autonomously and automatically. The term is most commonly associated with malicious software, but it can also refer to a network of computers using distributed computing software.The main drivers for botnets are for recognition and financial gain. The larger the botnet, the more ‘kudos' the herder can claim to have among the underground community. The bot herder will also ‘rent' the services of the botnet out to third parties, usually for sending out spam messages, or for performing a denial of service attack against a remote target. Due to the large numbers of compromised machines within the botnet huge volumes of traffic (either email or denial of service) can be generated.

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