The Cutwail botnet, founded around 2007,[1] is a botnet mostly involved in sending spam e-mails. The bot is typically installed on infected machines by a Trojan component called Pushdo.[2] It affects computers running Microsoft Windows.[3]
^Brett Stone-Gross; Thorsten Holz; Gianluca Stringhini; Giovanni Vigna (March 29, 2011). "The Underground Economy of Spam: A Botmaster's Perspective of Coordinating Large-Scale Spam Campaigns" (PDF). USENIX. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 25, 2014. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
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