The air-force center of The Netherlands had its Internet connection down over a period of 3 days during the end-week of March 2011 because a botnet malware had hit unexpectedly. States a source, the malware helped get the PCs at the Gilze-Rijen center recruited to the Rustock network of bots that was taken down during March-end 2011. Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported this in news on April 1, 2011.
Moreover, the Internet problem also affected the PCs at another center, Soesterberg that has been officially decommissioned. The Rustock unleashed a massive volume of junk e-mails during March 25-28, 2011, as per telecompaper.com that published the news on April 4, 2011.
Meanwhile, in a statement, a Dutch Ministry of Defense spokesperson substantiated that the Internet connection got severed when a botnet worm infected the IP addresses that the military personnel utilized. However, the infected PCs were for soldiers' private use on a common online connection and didn't belong to the PC network of the Ministry of Defense. The problem reportedly came into notice at the time contaminated PCs began dispatching massive volumes of spam. Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported this on April 1, 2011.
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