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India had an average of 836 bots per day during 2008 and there were 1,03,812 distinct bot-infected computers observed in the country during the period NWC News Network, May 01, 2009
  • India had an average of 836 bots per day during 2008 and there were 1,03,812 distinct bot-infected computers observed in the country during the period.


  • India also saw a huge surge in bot command and control servers from 40 in 2007 to 70 in 2008. Bot command-and-control (CandC) servers are computers that botnet owners use to relay commands to bot-infected computers on their networks.

  • Amongst the cities in India with the highest number of bot-infected computers, Mumbai figured at the top with 37 percent followed by Chennai at 24 percent and Delhi at 7 percent.

  • 65 percent of worms and viruses in Indian enterprises are propagated through the File Sharing/Executables mechanism. This indicates that endpoint security and policy are still missing in many organizations as this level of security protection would have allowed IT administrators to scan removable drives for threats.


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