{"id":1543,"date":"2007-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/21\/symantec-bats-botnets-with-new-tool\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:33","slug":"symantec-bats-botnets-with-new-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/21\/symantec-bats-botnets-with-new-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec Bats Botnets with New Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Symantec officials say their new Norton AntiBot utility offers users an extra level of protection against bots in order to complement anti-virus products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s designed to be complementary to anti-virus and internet security products,&#8221; said Ed Kim, director of product management in Symantec&#8217;s Consumer Division.<\/p>\n<p>Kim noted Symantec&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,2161088,00.asp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}