Microsoft shuts down giant Rustock spamming network

Huge win for the M Team. Happy to see MSoft is still trying their best to protect their customers. I imagine money spent to do it this way was much cheaper than removing this content from users computers world wide.<p>They probably found it pretty simple after shutting down Waledac earlier. Same team, different target.

Weird. I thought modern botnets are P2P, with control nodes disguised as ordinary infected machines.<p>Well, it's nice that this was not the case.

Senderbase has some interesting spam statistics which are reported from Cisco/IronPort security appliances around the world. After today is over and the stats are calculated, there might be some interesting data.<p><a href="http://www.senderbase.org/home/detail_spam_volume" rel="nofollow">http://www.senderbase.org/home/detail_spam_volume</a>

To be fair, Microsoft made the Rustock spamming botnet possible.

Best thing Microsoft has done in years? ;)

The real news here is that while Microsoft is losing the smart phone market they are the market leaders in the bot net market with a clear 100%!<p>Thank you Microsoft for helping to clean up your mess!