Microsoft & FBI Unloading Giant Spam Network

PThe world's largest producer of spam emails, Rustock, finally managed to disabledthanks to the cooperation of Microsoft and the United States federal agencies (U.S.).

Microsoft filed lawsuits to Rustock encourage action raids against botnet that has infected millions of computers world through malicious code that makes them as anetwork of spammers.

"Botnets are estimated to have affected one million computers that operate under its control and is known to be able to send billions of spam emails every day,"explained a senior Microsoft attorney Richard Boscovich Digital Crimes Unit as quoted by ZDNet,Friday (18/03/2011).

Daily Wall Street Journal first reported that Microsoft's digital crime units working withfederal officers in raids on seven Rustock hosting facilities across the U.S. andconfiscated servers that run their network.

Closing Rustock represent a major advancement in the effort to reduce the amount ofspam worldwide. Last year, computer security firm Symantec reported that Rustockresponsible for 39 percent of the spam world.

Digital crime units Microsoft has long worked with law enforcement to detect andeliminate spammers, botnets and other malicious code creators. The government does not have sufficient resources to conduct such investigations. However, Microsoft iswilling to facilitate the investigation in order to maintain the desire of internet userscontinue to send email.

source : kRjogya.com

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