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

Somebody

[bobstreo]

Hunt them down and kill them all
Please

Re:Somebody

[selven]

I agree with hitting the pharma companies, but the credit card companies? I'd rather have them be neutral providers of monetary exchange services than have them decide what's legitimate and what isn't, just like ISPs should stay out of copyright enforcement.

Oh PAH-LEEEZE

[Frosty Piss]

First and foremost, don't expect ANY help from the "security" companies like Symantec and the like, SOLVING this problem would mean the end to their extortion business.

And, don't expect ANY help from the "white hats" in general, all they can do is walk in circles pontificating about how it would be unethical to hack these networks and bring them down.

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".

Friendly Reminder

[DynaSoar]

"Maybe what we need are a few good old fashioned hangings." -- Commissioner Orson Swindell, Federal Trade Commission
  at the first FTC spam conference.