The team behind the shutdown of the Rustock botnet have been giving details of how they were able to identify and take out the key command servers behind the network, and the legal precedent the case has set.
The Rustock botnet was responsible at one stage for more than half of the world's spam; its demise last week has cut global junk email levels significantly. It is made up of more than one million PCs which were infected over a period of years and remain so, with the possibility it could still be reactivated if any backup systems remain.
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