Microsoft has given the court’s word that Verisign should remove the 277th com domains that used to command-and-control servers Waledac botnet. Microsoft hopes thereby to gain botnet shut down, but it may prove to be the smallest part of the work, since Waledac botnet using P2P techniques to manage the many zombies in the network.
Microsoft will cooperate with other security experts work to shut down botnet, using other methods of attack. They tried in April to overcome Waledac using the built-in Windows “Malicious Software Removal Tool“However, not very successfully.
Work to get defeated botnet, which is believed to be behind the 1.5 billion daily spam e-mail is the culmination of several months of investigation.
