The ZeroAccess botnet is hardly so noble: a payload of blight-riddled code that first infiltrates a Windows-based computer, then surreptitiously joins hands with its contaminated co-conspirators to perpetrate click-scams, aiming computers like poison arrows at ad-flush websites and costing advertisers up to $2.7 million a month, according to Microsoft. Microsoft last week took the matter to court, filing a civil suit against the ZeroAccess botnet operators, securing legal authorization to block communications between U.S. computers and the IP addresses of 18 computers identified as involved in perpetrating the scam. "If the hacker community has not yet taken notice, today's disruption of the ZeroAccess botnet is another example of the power of public-private partnerships," said FBI Executive Assistant Director Richard McFeely in a statement. Microsoft itself admits that both it and its partners "Do not expect to fully eliminate the ZeroAccess botnet due to the complexity of the threat." For starters, this does nothing to remove the ZeroAccess malware from infected computers, and as Krebs points out, the ZeroAccess P2P botnet is still up and running.
Source: TIME
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