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What about without local privilege escalation? Is there no way for a malware payload or RCE to turn your computer into a botnet without root privileges?
by andreyf 12y ago
What about without local privilege escalation? Is there no way for a malware payload or RCE to turn your computer into a botnet without root privileges?
- dzhiurgis 12y agoThere are advertising networks that use JavaScript on client machine do distributed computing. Is that a botnet or not?
- robbintt 12y agoDo you know where I can observe this? I'd like to review the code.
- cheald 12y agoThere certainly is, but rooting a box lets you ensure that you stuff says in place. Once a box is rooted, its owner can never really be sure they have it clean without wiping and rebuilding it.