[sniffer] So, another botnet bites the dust.

2011-03-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew 
Pete, now that Microsoft has taken down the Rustock botnet, what's your
telemetry say about spam volumes? Any significant change?
 
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2011/03/18/taking-down
-botnets-microsoft-and-the-rustock-botnet.aspx
 
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/03/rustock-botnet-flatlined-spam-volumes
-plummet/
 
But CommTouch doesn't think it made much of a dent:
 
http://blog.commtouch.com/cafe/anti-spam/has-the-reported-disruption-of-
rustock-affected-spam-levels/
 
 
 
Andrew from Vancouver

[sniffer] Re: So, another botnet bites the dust.

2011-03-18 Thread Pete McNeil 


  
  
On 3/18/2011 4:17 PM, Colbeck, Andrew wrote:

  
  
  Pete,
now that Microsoft has taken down the Rustock botnet, what's
your telemetry say about spam volumes? Any significant
change?


I don't see a dent.





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