By: Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
Microsoft is claiming responsibility for the takedown of the massive Rustock botnet, which stopped sending out spam midmorning March 16. Estimates of Rustock’s size varied between 1.1 million and 1.7 million infected computers, and the botnet may have been responsible for 47.5 percent of all spam sent worldwide by the end of 2010. Rustock also went inactive for days at a time, making it unclear at first whether the current silence was due to internal factors or the efforts of some outside agency.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Claims-Rustock-Botnet-Takedown-825397/?kc=rss
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