Thomson Financial Corporation - number two in our profile of companies with bots running on their networks.

April 1st, we noted 198.80.153.10 ( 153-10.tfn.com) connecting to a command and control server via IRC. Unfortunately this is no April Fool's joke. Nor is the Botspam they've been sending us over the last month, such as this pump and dump sent from 198.80.128.88 on 3-15-2007:




















We'd also recommend checking out 198.80.189.10 which sent us over 25 pieces of botspam in March most of which touted different over the counter stocks.