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MS anti-Zeus tool cleans quarter-million PCs

MS anti-Zeus tool cleans quarter-million PCs

October 18, 2010 — Computerworld — Microsoft said its free malware cleaning tool had scrubbed the money-stealing Zeus bot from nearly 275,000 Windows computers in under a week. Zeus, also called Zbot, is a crimeware kit that lets criminals create... Read more.

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