Reports about the TDL-4 botnet, which analysts have called "practically indestructible," partly due to the presence of a secondary peer-to-peer network to stymie take-down attempts, did not sit well with Richard Boscovich, a senior attorney with Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Digital Crimes Unit.

As reported by Computerworld's Gregg Keizer, Boscovich sees it this way: "If someone says that a botnet is indestructible, they are not being very creative legally or technically...Nothing is impossible." According to Boscovich, the Waledac take-down showed it's possible to poison the peer-to-peer network of a botnet. Microsoft has a solid record of decapitating botnets--statistics from Dell SecureWorks have shown that Rustock attacks dropped tenfold since the March take-down by Microsoft and security vendor FireEye.

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