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."

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Re:Pharmaceutical

[compro01]

My accounts have been getting more offers of narcotics than genital enlargement in the past few months. Also got a few spams selling antibiotics, which is a new one, and even more reprehensible if they're genuine.

Re:Somebody

[228e2]

No.

I know its "crazy" to think that not everyone knows how to run a bare bones Linux distro and knows how to block all ports except for 80, 8080, and say 21-23. But believe me when I say that the majority of computer users are incredibly inept when it comes to basic computer security.

Grandma will never be a network admin. Neither will your local elementary school teacher. Just because people run Windows out of the box and have no idea they are harboring an orgy of botnets is it fair to call them criminals.