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Major spamming botnets go down, inboxes breathe sigh of relief

article published on 6 January, 2011

The NYTimes has reported that spam email volume fell by as much as 57 percent in December after a number of infamous botnets went dark and have yet to resume. Beginning on Christmas Eve, the massive Rustock botnet "appears to have completely gone of the map and is yet to resume," says Matt Sergeant of Symantec. Sergeant is a senior anti-spam tecnologist. The allegedly Russian-operated ... [ read the full article ]

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Zealousi
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_ 		7. January 2011 @ 09:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hhmm better check my server :P
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bratcher
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_ 		7. January 2011 @ 11:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Less spam emails sent the better!!
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dEwMe
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_ 		7. January 2011 @ 12:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
lol yeah you don't wanna be arrested in Russia...

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Just my $0.02,

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aldan
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_ 		7. January 2011 @ 16:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
its good to see these sites go down but i would like to see the people responsible hang by their balls.
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bratcher
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_ 		7. January 2011 @ 17:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by aldan:
 its good to see these sites go down but i would like to see the people responsible hang by their balls.
Thats a great idea!!
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ChappyTTV
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_ 		8. January 2011 @ 19:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by aldan:
 its good to see these sites go down but i would like to see the people responsible hang by their balls.
Dangled by their Dongles...;)
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aldan
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_ 		8. January 2011 @ 19:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
LMAO.
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