Researchers, U.S. Marshals and Dutch police take down Rustock botnet. Botnet infects up to a million computers and sends out 30 billion unwanted emails a day. Microsoft’s lawyers and law enforcement officers took down the botnet in five cities on Wednesday. The botnet is notorious for sending out pharmaceutical spam, and its demise should put a further dent in global spam volumes. The Internet community has polished a technique for getting rid of complex global networks of malicious computers, says Barry Greene.”]
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