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Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam

Posted by timothy on from the long-walk-short-plank dept.

angry tapir writes "More than 40 percent of the world's spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle, according to new statistics from Symantec's MessageLabs' division. The Rustock botnet has shrunk since April, when about 2.5 million computers were infected with its malicious software that sent about 43 billion spam e-mails per day. Much of it is pharmaceutical spam."

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  1. Re:Somebody by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow. Good thing there aren't any women on the Internet to get offended by that...

  2. Windows has great anti-malware tech by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There's a great feature on modern versions of Windows — it stops working after 30 days, forcing you to reinstall. This gets rid of most malware.

    Unfortunately, this feature is optional. Through the "activation" process you can turn it off. If they were to disable this security hole and force everyone to reinstall every 30 days, these botnets would probably wither and die.

  3. Re:This is why we won't shut up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ya really, stfu noob.