Software
Anti-botnet initiatives USELESS in sea of patch-hating pirates
Reported by theregister.co.uk
Three Dutch researchers have crunched data gleaned from efforts to battle the Conficker bot and declared anti-botnet initiatives all but useless for clean up efforts.
Conficker was born in 2008 spreading aggressively through a since patched remote code execution Microsoft vulnerability ( MS08-067 ) that affected all operating systems including servers. The rate increased with a malware update that allowed Conficker to spread via USB
