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Microsoft Disrupts Nitol Botnet
hypnosec writes "Having procured permission from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit managed to disrupt more than 500 different strains of malware in a bid to slow down the threats posed by the Nitol botnet. Microsoft, through an operation codenamed b70 (PDF), discovered Chinese retailers were involved in selling computers with a pirated version of Windows loaded with malware. Microsoft believes the malware could have entered the supply chain at any point, for the simple reason that a computer travels among companies that transport and resell the computer. The Windows 8 maker carried out a study focused on the Nitol botnet, through which it found nearly 20 percent of all the PCs that were purchased through insecure Chinese supply chains were infected with malware."
The Windows 8 maker carried out a study which was focused on the Nitol botnet through which it found that nearly 20 percent of the all the PCs that were purchased through unsecure Chinese supply chain were infected with malware.
And 100% of microsoft's products are infected with poor design, bloat, BSODs, and other maladies.
Circle the wagons and fire inward. Entropy increases without bounds.
"only 20 percent of the all the PCs that were purchased through unsecure Chinese supply chain were infected with malware."
Fixed that for you! Everyone knows that more than 50 percent of Windows PCs are infected with malware, so its actually an improvement! Not that it matters, as I still don't want one.
In brief, Microsoft wanted to demonstrate that puppies die when you buy an unauthorised copy of Windows.
It doesn't matter who was doing it - what matters is that the US government needed to help this downtrodden altruist get its cut.
Why is it troll? This is obviously a marketing piece. Even the summary arbitrarily slips in "The Windows 8 maker"!