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Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet
Barence writes "Microsoft has quietly won court approval to deactivate 277 domain names that are being used to control a vast network of infected PCs. The notorious Waledac botnet is being used by Eastern European spammers to send 1.5 billion spam messages every day, and infect hundreds of thousands of machines with malware. In a suit filed in the US District Court of Eastern Virginia, Microsoft accused 27 unnamed defendants of violating federal computer crime laws. It further requested that domain registrar Verisign temporarily deactivate the domains, shutting down the control servers being used to send commands to the machines. The request was secretly approved by District Judge Leonie Brinkema, allowing the action to be taken covertly, preventing Waledac's operators from switching domains."
... but HOORAY FOR MICROSOFT!
I hate printers.
The Ukranians, Poles, and Chechs called. They're insulted that you're lumping them in with the Rooskies, and they're rooting your box.
The insulted Czechs are now rooting your box.
That explains all the spam. The Czechs are in the mail.
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Is today the day we like Microsoft?? I just want to make sure I have that right. Its not some trick to cover them acting like vigilantes is it??
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It's not "president". You probably meant "precedent".
No he really does mean "president". You see, now that Bill isn't there, Microsoft has this big tank of goop out in the back, and whenever they need a new VP to make a bold policy change they open a valve and flow the goop into a person shaped mould. Then they have to let it harden or "set". After which time they decant the new president and set him to work
Thus the OP was expressing his concern for the Zombie like creatures that this policy has brought to (semi) life
He must be a member of PETZ
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Because idiots are amazingly inventive, persistent, and breed at a rate so ferocious that rabbits are envious.
Come up with a "foolproof" way for securing a system and some imbecile will find a way around it.
Not to mention all the inconveniences such a lockdown method would inevitably entail.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!