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Microsoft Botnet-hunting Tool Helps Bust Hackers
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Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft. The software vendor is giving law enforcers access to a special tool that keeps tabs on botnets, using data compiled from the 450 million computer users who have installed the Malicious Software Removal tool that ships with Windows.
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Basically Microsoft, who are responsible for the botnet epidemic, by selling millions of insecure computers, are invading the privacy of windows users in order to fight the very epidemic they helped start. Full Story |
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