Major botnet down

downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/03/18/mi...uces-worldwide-spam/

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, working with federal law enforcement agents, has brought down the world's largest spam network, Rustock.

Rustock, at its peak, was a botnet of around 2 million spam-sending zombies capable of sending out 30 billion spam email per day. Microsoft's wholesale slaughter of Rustock could reduce worldwide spam output by up to 39%.

reduced worldwide spam output by up to 39%

While I'm sure those numbers are temporary and possibly inflated thats a pretty big head on the botnet hydra that just got caught.

Nevins,

And I was wondering why I saw a 30% reduce in spam email

That is a pretty impressive figure - I bet the bots were running Microsoft operating systems and Microsoft felt obligated to work with federal agents and do something right this time

Great news, keep them coming!

Honestly this just means a whole bunch of new bot herders will rush to re-zombie the uninfected computers and take up the free space.

nnbnbThere was this one too:
news.techworld.com/security/3265970/uk-p...e-antivirus-attack/#
Very annoying, had to clean this off my daughters PC