The infamous Rustock network of bots that once dispatched over 50% of the total junk e-mails of the globe is understandably out of operation following Microsoft, which with the assistance of American security agencies, has grabbed the botnet's reins. V3.co.uk published this on March 17, 2011.
It is estimated that Rustock contains a huge 815,000 hijacked Windows computers that some 26 command and control (C&S) servers regulate. The contaminated PCs are still in a state of compromise; however, they haven't been commanded to act as also the spam formats they have drawn upon are hitherto lying passive. Moreover, it's been 3 years now that Rustock is around, having dispatched around 200bn spam messages daily that chiefly promoted male enhancement drugs and Internet pharmacies.
Meanwhile, Rustock's C&C servers were hosted on U.S Web-hosting companies that apparently didn't know exactly what role they played for Rustock. The servers issued commands for contaminating corporate and home computers across the world that ran the Windows operating software of Microsoft.
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