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That’s not got much spam in it

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Rob Heverly in Law & Technology

VentureBeat reports that Microsoft techs, working with US Marshalls, have taken down the Rustock spam botnet:

Rustock was one of the biggest botnets in the world, producing more e-mail spam than any other network. But early yesterday, it ceased sending spam.

One more step in the technological arms race that is the Internet.

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