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Old 14th April 2011
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Default Friendly takeover: FBI controls bot PCs

From http://www.h-online.com/security/new...s-1228222.html

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On Tuesday evening, the FBI shut down the Coreflood botnet but also took a step that will probably cause a lot of discussion among security experts. The US authorities are temporarily accessing victims' computers to remove the contaminant from the systems. If a computer infected with the bot tries to contact a command-and-control server, it lands on a server controlled by the FBI, which sends out a kill command. The malicious software is then disabled until the system reboots.
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