Microsoft takes down major fake drug spam

Posted on March 19, 2011 • Filed under: Counterfeit Drugs, Internet, United States

Microsoft on Thursday announced the dismantling of a “notorious and complex” network of virus-infected computers used to send billions of email messages daily hawking fake drugs. The Rustock “botnet” consisted of about a million computers that were infected with malicious code to let hackers covertly control the machines from afar using “command and control” servers. Read Article

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