Microsoft have identified themselves as the key instigators of the takedown of the Rustock botnet. This is the second time Microsofts legal team has been actively involved in combating the botnet menace. Enterprise-targeted botnets tend to be a different breed make use of enterprise-specific functionality (e.g. being proxy aware and exploiting vulnerabilities over the network that would be blocked by perimeter firewalls) and their objectives tend. to be more refined and clearly criminal. But is now now the time to begin writing passwords you use for accessing networked services?”]