Developed a new way to detect and clear all variants of a malicious virut zombie Network

Baidu Antivirus has developed a new way to detect and remove all variants of malicious "Virut" botnets, Nasdaq:bidu said today, making Baidu Antivirus became the first known anti-virus program to completely protect users from this threat.

Virut botnet spreads through executable file infections and infects vulnerable browsers by using Web sites that use stolen HTML. Infected computers become DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, spam, fraud, data theft, and illegal installation of paid-for-activity hosts.

Despite the action taken by the Polish Research and Development organization Nask in January 2013, the Virut virus continues to pose a threat to users. At present, most commercial anti-virus software does not provide full protection.

Virut has existed since 2006, with new variants appearing at nearly a weekly rate. According to U.S. It website eWEEK in January 2013, Virut has controlled about 300,000 PCs.