This sure looks like a nasty piece of work. Massive botnet ‘indestructible,’ say researchers A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is “practically indestructible,” security researchers say. “TDL-4,” the name for both the bot Trojan that infects machines and the ensuing collection of compromised computers, is “the most sophisticated [...]
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