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Storm bot's stranglehold slipping |
The Storm Worm botnet is just a fraction of its original size, but malware remains on the rise, according to one email security firm.
The Storm botnet showed a dramatic decrease while web-based malware increased, the latest monthly MessageLabs Intelligence Report shows.
Partly due to an updated Microsoft Malicious Code Removal Tool that helps detect infection and partly because of efforts to control the command and control systems by various white-hat hackers, Storm is now just five percent of its original size, Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist at MessageLabs, told SCMagazineUS.com on Monday.
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