Bot Attacks US/UK

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Can vPro protect against the Bot attacks? How does/will it do it? http://www.itnews.com.au/News/101559,massive-uk-and-us-botnet-uncovered.aspx http://www.itnews.com.au/News/101559,massive-uk-and-us-botnet-uncovered.aspx

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vPro can help protect systems or in the identification\isolation\remediation\removal of botnets.

vPro would be combined with mgmt and security solutions to help address

One example approach for the Conficker worm - /openport/community/openportit/vproexpert/blog/2009/03/30/can-intel-vpro-help-combat-conficker-worm http://communities.intel.com/openport/community/openportit/vproexpert/blog/2009/03/30/can-intel-vpro-help-combat-conficker-worm

Some addt'l options and capabilities in vPro - yet not specifically mentioned in the above linked article - include agent presence, events\alerts, etc.