Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Kills Botnet

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has halted the emerging Kelihos Botnet in
its tracks. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Kills Botnet Microsoft announced
that it has turned off the emerging Kelihos botnet by breaking the ties between
it and the zombie computers it controlled. The Kelihos botnet shared code with
Waledac, a major botnet Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Verisign, and
others helped disable in early 2010. Microsoft dubbed the new botnet Waledac
2.0, but classified it as a separate family. Richard Domingues Boscovich, the
senior attorney for Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s Digital Crimes Unit,
said that, The takedown of the Kelihos botnet represents an important element in
our botnet fighting efforts Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s analysis of
the Kelihos botnet showed large portions of Kelihos code were shared with
Waledac, which suggested that Kelihos was either from the same parties or that
the code was obtained, updated and reused. Once we learned of the apparent
relationship to Waledac, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) immediately began
developing a plan to take out Kelihos using similar technical measures".
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