Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam

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."

Comments

Re:Somebody

[DWMorse]

And then, unplug their computers.

That's... that's what you meant, right?

Voluptuous woman falls over heavy chest

[Spewns]

Make your girl happy with your long and huge meat machine.

*link to .ru website*

Re:Voluptuous woman falls over heavy chest

[Delarth799]

You get text in your emails still?

A vast majority of the ones I get are just a link or someone having a spaz on the keyboard a few times and then a link.
I do occasionally get ones where they try to chop up the words into several parts. Those are the easy ones to filter for.

Re:Voluptuous woman falls over heavy chest

[Nadaka]

I know, I kinda miss the days when my spam folder would be filled with messages that end in a quixotic paragraph that resembles nonsensical poetry.

anti-spam

[bakamorgan]

Find their ip address and sick 4chan on them maybe then something will get done.

Re:anti-spam

[NevarMore]

Wait, are you proposing that we ENCOURAGE 4chan to take over a botnet of 2.5 million computers?

I'll take the spam thankyouverymuch.

Really?

[scdeimos]

More than 40 percent of the world's spam is coming from a single network of computers

Yes, it's called the internet.

Stiffy In A Jiffy

[soundguy]

The best one I ever received was

Subject: Stiffy In A Jiffy
From: Erection Perfection

Re:Oh PAH-LEEEZE

[PatPending]

So really, the only solution is the possibility of someone with "black hat" skilz that wants to be paid to take the system down outside the "law".

Hudson: Let's just bug out and call it even, OK? What are we talking about this for?

Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Hudson: Fuckin' A...

Re:WoW spam

[Anonymous Coward]

It's because you're not old enough to have a credit card or pubic hair.

Re:Question

[ZERO1ZERO]

Tom: Listen to this one: you open a company called the "Arse Tickler's Faggots Fan Club".

Soap: You what?

Tom: You take out an advert in the back page of some gay mag, advertising the latest in arse-intruding dildos. You sell it with, I dunno, "does what no other dildo can do until now", "the latest and greatest in sexual technology", "guaranteed results or your money back", all that bollocks. Now these dils cost twenty-five quid a pop - that's a snip for the amount of pleasure they're gonna give the recipients. But they send their cheques to the other company name, nothing offensive, er, "Bobbie's Bits" or something, for twenty-five quid. You take that twenty-five quid, you stick it in the bank until it clears. Now, this is the smart bit - you send back the cheque for twenty-five pound from the other company name, "Arse Tickler's Faggots Fan Club", saying we're sorry, we couldn't get the supplies from America because they ran out of stock. Now you see how many people cash that cheque - not a single soul, because who wants their bank manager to know they tickle arse when they're not paying cheques? Bacon: So how long do you have to wait until you see a return?

Tom: Probably no more than four weeks.

Bacon: A month? So, what fucking good is that if we need it in six - no, five days?

Tom: Well, it's still a good idea.