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February 7, 2013 02:49 am GMT

Microsoft, Symantec Disable Botnet Infecting Hundreds of Thousands of Computers


Microsoft and Symantec joined forces to shut down a botnet controlling hundreds of thousands of computers on Wednesday, according to a report.

Between 300,000 and 600,000 computers were freed from botnet control when technicians and U.S. federal marshals seized a server in Weekhawken, N.J., and got another operator to disable a server in the Netherlands on Wednesday, reports Reuters.

The raid's target was the Bamital botnet, a click-fraud operation that first surfaced in 2010.

Users infected with Bamital malware had their search results unknowingly redirected to websites that profited from advertising impressions made by the visitors. The botnet's controllers may have also instruct…
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