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Microsoft didn’t crush Storm, counter researchers
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By the company’s count, the MSRT cleaned more than 526,000 Storm-infected PCs in the final four months of last year. After some back and forth between the Storm bot herders and Microsoft, the former gave up, said Jimmy Kuo, a senior security architect at the company.
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Not so fast, said Trend Micro.
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More important, though, is the big picture, said Ferguson and Yaneza. Storm is certainly diminished, they agreed, but not simply because of Microsoft and its MSRT.
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“Storm is still out there,” he said. And active. “We’ve seen campaigns to renew their [botnet] body count within the last 48 hours,” Ferguson said.
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