Norton AntiBot
Symantec Corp. released today its Norton AntiBot, which is designed to provide consumers with bot detection and removal.
Norton AntiBot is client-side software designed to monitor PC applications and processes, running along with conventional anti-virus products. Symantec released the beta version of the zombie-fighting software in early June.
The malware-fighting software doesn't depend on virus signatures and scan-based technologies, like anti-virus products generally do, Ed Kim, director of product management at Symantec, said in an earlier interview. Kim said that AntiBot is behavioral-based technology, aimed at guarding against malware and Trojans that hackers use to infect computers and turn them into zombies to join their botnet armies. He also said it's designed to tackle systems that already have become part of a botnet and weed the malicious code out of infected computers.