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Huge win for the M Team. Happy to see MSoft is still trying their best to protect their customers. I imagine money spent to do it this way was much cheaper than removing this content from users computers world wide.

They probably found it pretty simple after shutting down Waledac earlier. Same team, different target.




Actually, it was very different. A quote:

"However, Rustock’s infrastructure was much more complicated than Waledac’s, relying on hard-coded Internet Protocol addresses rather than domain names and peer-to peer command and control servers to control the botnet."

Read the whole thing at http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...


This should be made into a movie


"The Asocial Network"




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