Microsoft and Symantec take down botnet

A successful co-operation between Microsoft and Symantec has resulted in the Bamital botnet being taken down.

More than 8 million computers are known to have been infected.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/02/06/microsoft-and-symantec-take-down-bamital-botnet-that-hijacks-online-searches.aspx

Good to know.

Project MARS has been pretty successful thusfar.