Explain me what is botnet software and how to recognize it?
How many fedora hats do you have anon?
>>51984029
Anything proprietary
>>51985090
>>>/reddit/
>>51984029
I'll play
>>51984029
foobar is botnet?
>>51984029
How is foobar botnet? I know you didn't make the picture, but maybe somebody else can clarify.
>>51986664
You don't know why it's added?
>>51986664
IIRC made by Russians and source code not available anywhere
>>51986740
>made by Russians
No.
>source code not available anywhere
Yes.
>>51986664
If it's not open sores, it's botnet.
>>51986740
>>51986757
But theoretically couldn't you just use Wireshark to test if there's any weird connections while using it?
>>51984029
not bad
>>51986768
Of course you can. You always can block it in the firewall too.
>>51986768
Always go by the philosophy of anything is possible.
For all you know foobar2k just makes itself invisible to programs like Wireshark by some method or another.
>>51986848
>For all you know foobar2k just makes itself invisible to programs like Wireshark by some method or another.
So do NSA backdoors in Loonix :^)
>>51986869
Except the advantage is that at least the Linux kernel source code is widely available.
Did I pass?
>>51985267
That's not what botnet is.
>>51984029
Software that mines, sells and stores data on you to build a profile for targeted advertising.
>>51986794
>µtorrent
but why
>>51984029
pretty ok?
>>51986886
But it makes it invisible to programs like vim or emacs :^)
>>51986896
>That's not what botnet is.
Word botnet is largely meaningless on /g/. Hell, definition that you provided is acutally not a botnet.
Am I Normie consumerist scum?
foobar2k botnet? What have I missed?
>>51986938
you havent scored bingo so, no?
>>51986925
It's meaningless because newfags like you never understood the meme in the first place and used it until it became meaningless.
>Hell, definition that you provided is acutally not a botnet.
No fucking shit, botnet was a meme born out of the post-2010 crisis of literally everybody coming together to form a network of commonly used software and services that datamined the fuck out of you to build an advertising profile, further entrenched by the NSA controversy of recent years.
But you retards have gone full reddit and now the meme ain't funny anymore.
>>51986925
No need for :^) since it's also entirely possible.
But I think we should concede it's more likely for backdoors to exist in Windows rather than Linux. Both for motivations of the NSA and Linux' being open-source.
7/36 ... could be worse.
no bingo this time
Get on my level
>>51986994
>implying botnet meme was not misused as "shit I don't like from" it's conception
>sperging out about some shitty meme
>this software spies on me, it's botnet
yes
>this software is not open source, it's botnet
well maybe
>this software uses telemetry, it's botnet
wut ?
>I hate this software, it's botnet
shut up
>>51987040
this
Aren't botnet only software that spies on us and uses our data in a bad way ?
A botnet is an online jew
>>51987203
wrong thread
>dolphin is botnet
Well if fucking palemoon for Android would add flash support.
why foobar? isn't it open source?
no whatsapp (owned by facebook) ?
>>51984029
it has this somewhere on it.
Guys, Would anti-malware like malwarebytes still be botnet?
>>51984029
did pretty good I guess.
>>51986794
11 botnets is pretty bad m8.
>>51986924
>chrome
GET OUT.
Foobar is not free nor open source software it's proprietary. The foobar dev(s) released an SDK under a permissive license so others could extend foobar but the program itself is proprietary
>>51987593
Fuck it, I'll just lump in malwarebytes with the AV group.
>>51986896
prove me that a proprietary software doesn't mines, sells and store data on you.
You can't trust a closed source software
Hi I'm not a /g/ poster, and I would like to know why you are all misusing the term botnet
I presume its a stupid shitty meme around here, like cucking in /v/
>>51987804
ever heard of License Agreements? if they are botnet and it's not there, it's illegal software.
>>51987850
>not a /g/ poster
>meme
heh
>>51987860
>implying google cares about legality
Didn't get bingo
:^(
no fucks
>>51988146
Winrar
Any good?
Is Ubuntu still botnet?
>>51988347
Also, why is antivirus listed?
>>51984029
POO IN THE LOO
>>51987860
hahaha EULAs usually have a broad statement about storing and handling your data forever. that's enough from a legal POV for the botnet.
>>51988357
Well, AVs require a constant internet connection in order to stay updated. This could potentially be used to gather other information about the user's computer and online behavior.
That being said, nobody really needs one, I've seen idiots getting their computers infected with all sorts of malicious software and shit, despite having an antivirus (commercial or otherwise)
Common sense is free, always up to date and easy to use, you don't even need to install it.
>>51984029
How come Apple is literally just one box, and Microsoft gets like, 4?
fugg
>>51987038
I tip my fedora to you.
i try
>>51988998
Microsoft has done much more than just offering services and software, they have developed new technologies and serve a role in education with their school and college programs.
Apple in the other hand is just a brand of products and services aimed at people who like to pretend they are responsible consumers concerned about quality (LMAO), they used to be great a long time ago. As company and what they stand for, Apple is so shallow it can be described solely by its logo, considering how most people who choose Apple do it for the logo.
I use
Ubuntu
BlackBerry
Spotify
Netflix.
>a-am I part of b-botnet fellas.....
>>51989257
My point was that Microsoft is getting a little bit of a bad rap here, having 4 separate products on the botnet board, whereas Apple gets off easy with just one square.
What's wrong with ghostery?
>>51989318
Probably, but who cares really? Gotta fill them squares with something, besides, unless you are some kind Microshill there's no need to get upset about it, right?
Lastpass?
>>51989415
I guess so. The only reason I really noticed it was because I was looking to see if iOS was on there and only saw Apple
reall,y not bad considering. About to drop google services too
