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Saturday, July 21, 2007
Symantec Bats Botnets with New Tool
Symantec officials say their new Norton AntiBot utility offers users an extra level of protection against bots in order to complement anti-virus products.
“It’s designed to be complementary to anti-virus and internet security products,” said Ed Kim, director of product management in Symantec’s Consumer Division.
Kim noted Symantec’s Norton products already have some behavioral detection capabilities. Kim said Symantec detected a 29 percent increase in active bots in the second half of 2006 versus the first half of 2006, and the total number of active bots detected was greater than 6 million.
Earlier this year, Mi5 Networks added technology to its Webgate appliance to help organizations detect botnet activity inside their networks and combat malware in Web traffic.