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Microsoft helps take down spam behemoth Rustock

article published on 20 March, 2011

Microsoft and federal law enforcement have jointly taken down the spam giant Rustock botnet, seizing computers, servers, and other equipment from hosting providers in Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Kansas City, Seattle, Scranton, Pa., and Columbus. The devices were allegedly "command-and-control" machines, from where operators of the botnet controlled over one million infected PCs, globally. ... [ read the full article ]

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tombennet

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20. March 2011 @ 03:37

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I did not know that this spam company existed.

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SomeBozo

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20. March 2011 @ 03:55

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Well isn't Microsoft also to blame for some of this too? I'm trying to blindly or broadly condemn Microsoft as a knee jerk reaction, but more from the perspective that Microsoft will install crap on people machine which they don't want or have any control to not install the crap. An example from reading an article a month or two back on Afterdawn here, the CEO of Firefox or Mozilla was complaining about Microsoft Office installing add-on into Firefox without users having an option. Mainly as i think it was causing problems with Firefox, second users had no control, and thirdly I would argue it opens up security wholes within Firefox. Other examples, while I'll agree Microsoft has stepped up security, worms like MIMDA or Slammer were exploits Microsoft exposed vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit yet i would think 90% of the users that did get effected had no clue SQL's MSDE was open for hackers to take over your machine bye...

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dbminter

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25. March 2011 @ 16:52

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Originally posted by SomeBozo:
I'm trying to blindly or broadly condemn Microsoft as a knee jerk reaction

You are trying to blindly blame or not? ;)

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