Zeus infections in a week
Microsoft removes 281,491 infections Zeus in a week Saturday, October 23, 2010
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Gabriela Villarreal (MSRT) to help security companies and Internet users to combat this threat.
But the program was more widespread than Microsoft expected: in the first week of fighting against Zeus, the tool Microsoft has removed 281,491 of 275,000 copies of the Trojan computers. 
20.4% of all threats detected by MSRT during that week were infections of Zeus. In other words, Zeus was the cause of 1 in 5 infections detected. "That figure is higher than we usually find when we add a new family ... but not exceptional," said Jeff Williams, director of the Center Microsoft Malware Protection. This threat exists since 2007, and Microsoft had to make several changes to its software detection tool that can detect malicious. "This is a complex threat that employs techniques to hinder its removal by antivirus, so we had to make some enhancements to our technology [to detect and eliminate Zeus]," said Williams.
This month, authorities in Britain and the United States issued dozens of arrest warrants for cybercriminals and money mules that used the Zeus Trojan to steal nearly $ 10 million to Internet users worldwide.
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