A federal judge ordered VeriSign to shut down nearly two dozen domains linked to servers that controlled Kelihos botnet. One of those domains — cz.cc — had hosted machines that distributed waves of fake Mac antivirus software. The fake programs, called “scareware” or “rogueware,” began hitting users in early May and continued for nearly two months. A pair of security companies that analyzed MacDefender in May and June confirmed Microsoft’s contention today. But both Wisniewski and Peter James, a spokesman for Intego, said the take-down was, in fact, largely moot.”]
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