Microsoft Looks To Courts For Botnet Takedowns

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @06:12PM from the letting-the-man-do-the-work dept.

angry tapir writes "Microsoft has seen a dramatic drop in the number of computers infected with Waledac, a piece of malicious software affiliated with a botnet that was once responsible for a massive amount of spam. In the second quarter of this year, the company cleaned only 29,816 computers infected with Waledac, down from 83,580 computers in the first quarter of the year. The drop in the number of infected machines shows the success of the legal action Microsoft took earlier in the year, according to the company."

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Re:Using the law to fix technical shortcomings by RightSaidFred99 · 2010-10-13 18:47 · Score: 5, Insightful

You're not surprised because you don't know what you're talking about. How exactly would they prevent a user from literally running an EXE someone randomly mails them?
I'll tell you what, I'll mail you a Linux binary and you just go ahead and run it for me. Also, have 50k of your friends run it for me too. Then tell me how surprised you are.
Technical shortcoming.... right.