Microsoft Recalls Suit against Russian Suspected of Creating Botnet

Microsoft recalled the lawsuit against Russian programmer Andrei Sabelnikov, who was accused of creating a major botnet, a source close to the proceedings told the Russian Legal Information Agency on Monday. The parties have managed to reach an agreement on the settlement of the conflict, he said. Sabelnikov stands accused of having created the Kelihos botnet code. A botnet is a network of computers whose security has been compromised by malware and which can thus be collectively controlled by an external source. The Kelihos network was comprised of over 40,000 computers, which were infected by way of spam, malware, and child pornography. Thanks to Microsoft, Kaspersky Lab and Kyrus Inc., Kelihos' activity was successfully shut down in September 2011. Sabelnikov previously published an open letter in his blog denouncing all of Microsoft's accusations against him.

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