Microsoft: We took out Storm botnet
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft took credit for crushing the Storm botnet Tuesday, saying that the malware search-and-destroy tool it distributes to Windows users disinfected so many bots that the hackers threw in the towel.
"They realized they were in our gun sights," said Jimmy Kuo, a principal architect with Microsoft's malware protection center, the group responsible for the MRST (Malicious Software Removal Tool). Microsoft updates and automatically re-distributes the software tool to Windows users each month on Patch Tuesday.