Symantec has removed more than 500,000 infected PCs from the botnet created by the ZeroAccess Trojan. ZeroAccess uses a peer-to-peer mechanism. It is the latest technique botnet authors have adopted to avoid having their networks taken down by security experts. Symantec used a DNS sinkhole to fight the ZeroAccess botnet. There are two variants of ZeroAccess. The second version, which appeared in 2012, had 1.9 million infected PCs as of August 2013, and it was the one Symantec attacked, said Symantec security researcher Vikram Thakur.
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Symantec Paws at ZeroAccess Botnet
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 1, 2013 02:33 PMSymantec has removed more than 500,000 infected PCs from the botnet created by the ZeroAccess Trojan. ZeroAccess uses a peer-to-peer mechanism. It is the latest technique botnet authors have adopted to avoid having their networks taken down by security experts. Symantec used a DNS sinkhole to fight the ZeroAccess botnet. There are two variants of ZeroAccess. The second version, which appeared in 2012, had 1.9 million infected PCs as of August 2013, and it was the one Symantec attacked, said Symantec security researcher Vikram Thakur.