Microsoft Shuts Down Necurs Botnet

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#5770269
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Sounds good to me.
#5770311
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That's sounds quite something. I guess only micro soft actually have the tech knowhow and recourses to be able to police like that and thankfully a private persecution avenue is available. I hope botnet get taken down.
#5770388
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still looks like a bandaid after you cut yourself, rather than sharpening the knife to prevent it in the first place. windows pushes its crappy FW on all network connections, yet did not prevent things like this at all.
#5770391
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If they don't get the people behind it. I fear a similar botnet will be created, but with another name and with a new domain algorithm. Since apparently there is to much money to be made and if they don't get them, then why would they stop.
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WTH? Why is a corporation playing police???? What is next? google "officials" arresting people? xD
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Good.
#5770521
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Noticed I wasn't getting any more Canadian Viagra emails so this is nice.... been getting them nonstop for years.
#5770576
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Something really happened, the public tracker I use seems to be clean! 😉
#5770589
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Good......seeing as i never get any the money i was promised from those so un ambassadors that require only my personal details and bank info before they can transfer my 15,000,000,000 buckzoids. Lol
#5770592
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XP-200:

Good......seeing as i never get any the money i was promised from those so un ambassadors that require only my personal details and bank info before they can transfer my 15,000,000,000 buckzoids. Lol
Yeah, have received a few of those. Damn and to think I could have retired.
#5770601
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TieSKey:

WTH? Why is a corporation playing police???? What is next? google "officials" arresting people? xD
I think your perspective on things is slightly skewed.
#5770602
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once you start seeing how much bandwidth gets consumed by spam/scam, ppl might take it even more serious
#5770611
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Khronikos:

Something DEFINITELY happened with Office Outlook. I no longer get 50 junk emails a day. IDK what it was, but I could tell immediately like a week ago that something went down. I don't open these spam emails, but they were always in my junk folder NO MATTER what the hell I did including killing all domains, blocking, et cetera. They were known to get pretty hardcore with domains that were not prevented by Outlook. But whatever they did it is working, and thank the lord.
I couldn't block a lot of them because the sender address was my own address... like wtf? how was I sending spam email to myself? that was the one that had me stumped, it was like they were hiding their address and it showed my own instead... I couldn't figure out how to block them but then started making hundreds of rules for what words would make a email get sent to trash and deleted, which helped a little, but then the spam emails started using different spelling for certain words which then made my rules not work, which then made me make even more rules, which was just so annoying to do. But yeah, like you said about a week ago I was like.... I'm not getting any spam, after literally years of the same stuff every single day. Just checked it now, and no spam, which to me is just amazing.
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Khronikos:

This email crap was absolutely in need of policing. It was getting way out of hand man.
I completely agree with that, what I find alarming is the deep involvement of a corporation. It should have been done by a estate nation (ideally a group of).
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alanm:

I think your perspective on things is slightly skewed.
Mind to elaborate? Thx :P
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TieSKey:

I completely agree with that, what I find alarming is the deep involvement of a corporation. It should have been done by a estate nation (ideally a group of).
It could not be done otherwise. That's like arguing that controlling pollution would not require the deep involvement of industrial companies for example. As they (meaning the tech industry) are the conduit for this material of course they would be inherently deeply involved. Some might argue your apparent preference for Govt take over of the internet, to be more dangerous.
#5770919
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Serving up all those junk emails that attempt to defraud people costs money... server money in time, maintenance and electricity/bandwidth. Also, if all MS customers are getting spammed and get taken to the bank by the scammers, less money left for Microsoft store purchases. So yes it behooves them to have a good part in it, and also keeps the customers happier. It's win-win for them, too bad no one thinks about that when they hate on Microsoft.
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HeavyHemi:

It could not be done otherwise. That's like arguing that controlling pollution would not require the deep involvement of industrial companies for example. As they (meaning the tech industry) are the conduit for this material of course they would be inherently deeply involved. Some might argue your apparent preference for Govt take over of the internet, to be more dangerous.
If I understood the article correctly, MS took over domains that would otherwise be registered and used by the spam bot. Any gob agency can do that, it's not MS that's sending the spam (like the pollution example u mention). At best they could be collaborators to say, the ICAN/FBI (name your agency with jurisdiction over domain names), helping it crack the bot algorithm used to create the domains. About your last line, some people would definitely do, personally I think both are bad, but governments can be changed in democratic nations, corporations cant unless u literally buy them yourself :S

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