Microsoft, Symantec Disable Botnet Infecting Hundreds of Thousands of Computers

Microsoft and Symantec joined forces to shut down a botnet controlling hundreds of thousands of computers on Wednesday, according to a report. Between 300,000 and 600,000 computers were freed from botnet control when technicians and U.S. federal marshals seized a server in Weekhawken, N.J., and got another operator to disable a server in the Netherlands on Wednesday, reports Reuters. The raid's target was the Bamital botnet, a click-fraud operation that first surfaced in 2010. Users infected wit...