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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. Somebody by bobstreo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hunt them down and kill them all
    Please

    1. Re:Somebody by selven · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

  2. Voluptuous woman falls over heavy chest by Spewns · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    *link to .ru website*

  3. Oh PAH-LEEEZE by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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".

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    1. Re:Oh PAH-LEEEZE by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb. - Dark Helmet

    2. Re:Oh PAH-LEEEZE by PatPending · · Score: 5, Funny

      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...

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  4. Really? by scdeimos · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Yes, it's called the internet.

  5. Re:Pharmaceutical by compro01 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  6. Friendly Reminder by DynaSoar · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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  7. Stiffy In A Jiffy by soundguy · · Score: 5, Funny
    The best one I ever received was

    Subject: Stiffy In A Jiffy
    From: Erection Perfection

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