From what I understood from the article it would be possible to disable these Bots by causing them to 'disinfect' themselves.
However the problem would appear to be finding the IRC channel etc that they are using. You would really need a copy of the bot, which means detecting an infected machine. This sounds like a much bigger problem than cleaning up all the instances of such a bot once it has been identified.
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From what I understood from the article it would be possible to disable these Bots by causing them to 'disinfect' themselves.
However the problem would appear to be finding the IRC channel etc that they are using. You would really need a copy of the bot, which means detecting an infected machine. This sounds like a much bigger problem than cleaning up all the instances of such a bot once it has been identified.