[pchelpers] News:Microsoft botnet-hunting tool helps bust hackers

By Robert McMillan , IDG News Service , 04/29/2008

Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft.

The software vendor is giving law enforcers access to a special tool
that keeps tabs on botnets, using data compiled from the 450 million
computer users who have installed the Malicious Software Removal tool
that ships with Windows.

Although Microsoft is reluctant to give out details on its botnet buster
-- the company said that even revealing its name could give cyber
criminals a clue on how to thwart it -- company executives discussed it
at a closed door conference held for law enforcement professionals
Monday. The tool includes data and software that helps law enforcers get
a better picture of the data being provided by Microsoft's users, said
Tim Cranton, associate general counsel with Microsoft's World Wide
Internet Safety Programs. "I think of it ... as botnet intelligence," he
said.

more here:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/042908-microsoft-botnet-hunting-tool-helps-bust.html?t51hb
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