Talking Bots with Japan’s ‘Cyber Clean Center’
Summary: Japan's Cyber Clean Center, run by JP-CERT with 76 Japanese ISPs covering 90 percent of the nation's Internet users, notified customers with botted PCs to download a cleanup tool built with Trend Micro, and helped more than a million customers remove bot infections between its December 2006 inception and November 2009. Of users who received infection reports, about 40 percent visited the CCC website and about 30 percent downloaded the CCC Cleaner tool, with detection, collection, analysis and alerting mostly automated and ISP participation optional.
What you should know: A 30 percent download rate means seven of every ten notified users stayed infected, and the source notes the United States holds the second largest pool of botted PCs after China and is the world's biggest exporter of junk e-mail, while few U.S. ISPs run comparable notification programs.
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