Cracking down on Conficker: Kaspersky, OpenDNS join forces
Mon, Feb 9th, 2009
The Conficker botnet is proving to be a feisty bit of malware. It may never become a problem of Storm-sized proportions, but Conficker's authors seem determined to keep their system in play. Team White Hat, however, isn't giving up-OpenDNS and Kaspersky Lab announced on Monday, February 9 that they'd be working together to prevent Conficker from spreading once it's infected a network. There are two components to the new approach. First, Kaspersky Labs is capable of predicting what domains Conficker will attempt to contact, while OpenDNS' Botnet Protection feature prevents those domains from resolving internally. The result-at least in theory-is a cooped-up Conficker.
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