This is how to remove it if your computer is infected: http://www.iss.net/security_center/reference/vuln/Trojan.Pus...

I wonder how much money, time and resources this botnet has cost companies over the years? It seems whenever progress is made to shut them down, they build it even larger than before.

Ok so if its identifying as an anything besides windows compare TTL in the packet to windows default if its different something is up

Highest proliferation in emerging countries - Interesting to see where the US fell in those rankings.

Seems random, what is the mission of the bot and who is behind it or is this for rent?