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(Unverified)Dec 29th 2009 7:31AM

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Huh, as far as I know it, he succeeded in eradicating the mega-D botnet but just for about 2 weeks.

From MessageLabs Intelligence: 2009 Annual Security Report "Almost eradicated on 4 November 2009 as the result of community action to disrupt the botnet, spam from Mega-D fell to approximately 1% of all spam. Mega-D returned on 13 November using a different collection of bots, sending between 4-5% of spam."

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(Unverified)Dec 29th 2009 8:07AM

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I think, from the PC World article, that they handed over the work to another group -- because as you say, botnets never really DIE.

Still, it must take some time to rebuild a network of 250,000 computers!

You can't really ever win such a war... just build a good defence, and occasionally strike back :)

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(Unverified)Dec 29th 2009 8:51AM

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Since only the servers controlling the botnets(and not the infected computers) were affected , I guess the network would be fully back up as soon as another server comes up to take back the control . I wonder what would happen when the spammers would adopt true p2p techniques to send out spam, instead of a centralised command server.

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(Unverified)Dec 29th 2009 8:59AM

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Ah, very true!

I guess they could rollout a fix from the control servers to all the infected zombies... but that might be a little too cool :P

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