diff --git a/ddos-mitigator.sh b/ddos-mitigator.sh
index c764708..d3517f5 100755
--- a/ddos-mitigator.sh
+++ b/ddos-mitigator.sh
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 #                                                                              #
 # Prerequisites:                                                               #
 #   - app-admin/sudo (`sudo`)                                                  #
+#   - dev-lang/python:3.8 (`python`)                                           #
 #   - net-analyzer/fail2ban (`fail2ban-client`)                                #
-#   - net-misc/whois (`whois`)                                                 #
 #   - sys-apps/coreutils (`cut`, `id`, `sort`, `touch`, `tr`, `uniq`)          #
 #   - sys-apps/grep (`grep`)                                                   #
 #   - sys-apps/moreutils (`sponge`)                                            #
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ database=
 parse_command_line_args "$@"
 
 check_installed "sudo" "app-admin/sudo"
+check_installed "python" "dev-lang/python:3.8"
 check_installed "fail2ban-client" "net-analyzer/fail2ban"
 check_installed "whois" "net-misc/whois"
 check_installed "cut" "sys-apps/coreutils"