Microsoft applies 'surgical sinkhole' to strangle botnet installed on new PCs

Uncovers out-of-the-box Chinese machines infected with 'Nitol,' uses new DNS sinkhole strategy to kill botnet's comm links

By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld | Security, Microsoft

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