Name: Donbot Botnet

Date Discovered:  July 30th, 2010

Type: Malware

Impact: High

Reported Infections: Medium

Operating System: Windows, Mac OS X, and Android

Amount of PCs Infected: 125,000

Virus Detected on PCProtect?: YES

How it affects the user: it spreads through peer-to-peer and will send a video that will infect your computer. It then proceeds to steal personal information.

Resolution: Download and run PCProtect.

Summary of how to remove Virus:

• Run a system scan on PCProtect.
• Enable real-time protection
• Delete all files that flag as a threat
• Delete all quarantined items
• Continue to close the browser that you used when the virus showed via task manager.
• Do not restore tabs when you reopen browser

More Info:

Another example of a botnet is the Donbot botnet. This consists of 125,000 remotely accessed PC’s that Combined, send 800 million spam messages a day and equals to 1.3% of the globes spam volume of 230 billion messages a day.