[Vigilanteman]

Does this mean we won’t get any more spam advertising p3n1$ enlargement?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Excellent!

Must be why I’m not getting any Viagra spam e-mails anymore...

[Paleo Conservative]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

[bcsco]

If you want to prevent your own computers from becoming botnet zombies, make sure you install anti-malware software, such as Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.

Good advice. Malwarebytes blocked suspicious activity for me today. I was on a golf equipment site looking at Callaway X-22 and Diabo irons when I got the block message. I left there in a hurry. And, no, it wasn't Callaway's website...

[KarlInOhio]

Microsoft quickly seized some of these machines located in the U.S. for further analysis,

Although I like the spammers being taken down, I wonder when Microsoft was granted general police powers? Maybe Obama didn't read the fine print in the license agreement when he installed Windows on a White House computer.

[Billthedrill]

Well, that may explain the message I just got in my email: "We may be out of business but you're till hung like a gerbil."

How do they know? Is there a database somewhere?

[snowsislander]

Here's a link to the much informative Microsoft Technet posting on this same event: Taking Down Botnets: Microsoft and the Rustock Botnet.

[razorback-bert]

Oh no, what will the world do without natural male enhancement.

[ShadowAce]

[martin_fierro]

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, working with federal law enforcement agents, has brought down the world's largest spam network, Rustock.
Rustock, at its peak, was a botnet of around 2 million spam-sending zombies

That's nice, considering their crappy OS helped foster it.