This summer, when we openly publish our software detection code, you can take what you find useful for your own work, and then help us make it better for our SETI search.

CNN: What if there's somebody else out there?

Since Virut code was complex and could embed itself in other infections, detection and take-down was difficult over a five year run.

FORBES: Why Cybercrime Remains Big Business - And How To Stop It

While their advanced malware protection, essentially an in-line sandbox that executes suspect code, was a first, they did not start to gain momentum until they introduced beaconing detection.

FORBES: Security Intelligence Enters Mainstream

The methods they used to avoid detection were straight out of a crime novel - they wrote cryptic notes using numbers and letters and spoke in code on the phone.

BBC: Operation Beath