10:37 Microsoft has removed 281 491 Trojan zeus five days | |
| Microsoft says a corporate blog that since the update utility Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), it has removed 281,491 a copy of the Zeus trojan with 274,873 infected Windows-systems. Thus, the largest botnet on the Internet has lost some of its zombies. Support for signatures Zeus / Zbot was added to the free program MSRT last Tuesday, October 12. Statistics are as of Sunday, that is to clean up a quarter of a million computers took five days. This affects the statistics are a few things. First, the scale of infection. Assumptions experts that the number of botnets family Zeus has already grown to several million computers were in fact true. Certainly defused only a small portion of bots. As of Sunday the latest version of MSRT scanned about 86 million computers, while the total number of Internet-connected Windows-based computers more than 1 billion Secondly, why only now that Microsoft has updated the program? After all, Zeus had long come out on top in the list of the most malicious network software, and was first spotted in 2007. Always said that this Trojan is difficult to detect - but that's Microsoft itself has proved that it is real. Director of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center said that from Tuesday Zeus is about 20,4% of all malicious software found MSRT. Program Malicious Software Removal Tool detects and removes malicious software comes with a standard upgrade Windows Update, or you can download it separately. | |
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