ISBN: | 978-5-5120-5074-3 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Toxbot is a computer worm that was primarily active in 2005. On infected computers, it opened up a backdoor to allow command and control over the IRC network, thus creating a botnet that at its peak comprised about 1.5 million computers . The two makers of the botnet were arrested in October 2005 and received jail sentences of 24 and 18 months from a Dutch court .