MSRT on Zbot, the botnet in a box

ronjor · Oct 12, 2010

This month, the MSRT team has added detection and removal for Zbot, one of the most widely known active botnets today. Although the malware itself is quite complex and varied, the technical acumen required to use and distribute it is actually quite low. Toolkits to create the malware are easily attainable and quite simple to use as the following screenshot shows.
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/10/12/msrt-on-zbot-the-botnet-in-a-box.aspx

fsr · Oct 12, 2010

Good move Microsoft Not sure if i understand the timming, but like they say better late than never

MrBrian · Oct 20, 2010

Microsoft nukes Zeus malware from 275,000 Windows machines

MrBrian · Feb 10, 2011

From Battling the Zbot Threat (with MSRT):

As you may recall, last October we updated MSRT to include the well-known malware Zbot (aka Zeus), one of the more prolific bots we see in the wild today. Today, we released a special-edition Security Intelligence Report, entitled “Battling the Zbot Threat,” that documents the background, functionality, prevalence, and geographical distribution of Zbot malware. The paper also shows how Microsoft has had a measurable effect on the Zbot ecosystem since broadening its attack efforts to include the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) in October 2010.
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