Remote access tool (RAT) known as DarkComet has announced that he’s retiring the free software, effective immediately. Developer Jean-Pierre Lesueur says he decided to pull the plug after his software was used for illegal purposes, for which he didn’t want to be held accountable. He has also released a tool to detect any instance of the tool running on a computer, “even packed/compressed/virtualized etc.,” he said. Symantec predicts that more developers of freeware RATs–and similar tools–will soon retire their wares.”]