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  Kelihos botnet creator worked for antivirus company, Microsoft says

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 5:21pm CET by Digg

  The Kelihos botnet that was sending up to 3.8 billion spam e-mails per day before being taken offline was allegedly created and controlled by a software developer who formerly worked for an antivirus firm.