Microsoft May Use Legal Means to Defeat the Zombie Network Operators

e court's support, through the clever use of Civilto appear in court because they know very well these
Procedure, Microsoft is expected to victory Waledacdomain names are used for illegal purposes, that
zombie network operators, and to reverse the illegalzombie site management." He said.
online operators methods.Microsoft asked the court to rely on unilateral review
A winner of the lawsuitprocess issued a temporary restraining order, the
Fuji Li Georgia federal court where a judge isCourt quickly granted the approval on Tuesday. This
expected to recommend within a few days trialrestraining order, without prior notice to the case of
Microsoft sue Waledac operators to make thedomain name registrants, the temporary closure of
absence of a judge ruling the case, Microsoft seniorthese Waledac domain.
attorney Richard Boscovich said Wednesday. This"This is the first application of a temporary restraining
means that the command and control server fororder unilateral review of issues dealing with botnets."
Waledac command-and-control servers, manyBoscovich said, "This is our first successful show to
infected computers to send orders of 276 domain willthe court for zombie sites, as zombies will continue to
be confiscated by Microsoft, which is closed to theharm the public interest website, through unilateral
public interest of effective means of botnets.award review process to quickly change this situation,
What distinguishes this case is the first time Microsoftthe court need to review procedures by unilaterally. "
has enabled the "unilateral review process" . ThisThis litigation strategy was a proof of concept
procedure allows the court in the domain name ownerapproach, other companies in the future can also use
without the presence of the verdict. Generallythis method to deal with botnets and other illegal online
speaking, if the judge provided to the registeredoperators. "There is no doubt that this completely
domain owner of the court the right to defense, canchanged the line to deal with unscrupulous operators,
not disclose information such as domain nameways and means." Boscovich said.
ownership. However, because Waledac domain nameWaledac zombie network of more than 100,000
registration in accordance with the court who refusedcomputers infected
to print on the network and appear in the publishedMicrosoft as a financially-sound company, which had
notice requirements, and because Microsoft hasbeen repeatedly by the courts to combat fake
succeeded in persuading the court to close the domainanti-virus ads, adware, spam, phishing instant
name in the public interest, the court intended to startmessaging , junk e-mail, so it has the ability to persuade
the review process to deal with the case of unilateral,the courts to demand that the U.S. information
Bos Covic said.infrastructure intelligence Facilities Services verisign to
The magistrate in the court hinted last Friday that herequest access Waledac domain name directly to
would oversee the case to federal District JudgeMicrosoft's specialism website which Rang Microsoft
Leonie - Bulinkema proposal to give Microsoftto identify the infected computer's IP address, and with
ownership of these domain names. "If the U.S. Federalindividual countries and the computer network service
District Court agreed with the judge's recommendation,providers co-Ying Ji response teams, Tixingzhexie
the case goes into default judgment procedures, thiscomputer users pay attention to this issue, Boscovich
way we have a winner of the." Boscovich said.said.
Microsoft first use "unilateral review process"Computers infected with malicious code means
Zombie website operators use a pseudonym in thetypically includes clicking a malicious link or open e-mail
majority of domain names registered in China, theywith a Trojan horse, these Trojans will be automatically
obviously have to know what happened, Boscovichinstalled in the victim's computer, so that criminals take
said. According to detection, specialized in Microsoftadvantage and use them to command the computer
lawsuit set up this website, frequently landing a largeto send spam.
number of unauthorized requests, Microsoft may beMicrosoft is leading the B49 Operation Panel, and
Waledac suspected as carriers. In addition, a Microsoftresearchers with industry and other companies, can
partner companies serving a network of researchersinterfere with Waledac peer botnets communication.
also received threats, Boscovich that WaledacInfected computer, the command and control server
operators should be responsible, but he declined toconnection is not the case, it is through this reciprocal
serve the researchers and the company's name.communication to send commands directly to each
"They received a court summons, but they chose notother.