PCWorld: Coordinated Malware Resists Eradication

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Criminals are linking networks of infected PCs -- and different pieces of destructive malware -- to thwart security applications.

By Erik Larkin
Jun 17, 2009

How do you make a terrible thing even worse? If you're a crook who operates a botnet -- an often-expansive network of malware-infected PCs -- you link botnets together to form a gargantuan "botnetweb." And you do it in a way that's hard for an antivirus suite to fight.

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