Microsoft Shuts Down Necurs Botnet
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vestibule
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.
fry178
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.
Webhiker
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.
TieSKey
WTH? Why is a corporation playing police???? What is next? google "officials" arresting people? xD
rflair
Moderator
Good.
KissSh0t
Noticed I wasn't getting any more Canadian Viagra emails so this is nice.... been getting them nonstop for years.
KissSh0t
Too soon.. too real...
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
Maddness
Yeah, have received a few of those. Damn and to think I could have retired.
alanm
I think your perspective on things is slightly skewed.
fry178
once you start seeing how much bandwidth gets consumed by spam/scam, ppl might take it even more serious
KissSh0t
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.
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).
TieSKey
Mind to elaborate? Thx :P
bobblunderton
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.
TieSKey
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
alanm
Yes. When you see botnets like Necurs as less evil than corporations using their resources to dismantle them and offering law enforcement their expertise + evidence to bring them down. Your argument seems to be that all corporations are evil no matter what they do and that even botnets should not be bothered by them. So yes, I do think your perspective on things is skewed.
TieSKey
Well I can tell u that u completely misunderstood me.
I never said the botnet should be "left alone", I never even criticized the action taken, only the actors and their roles.
The same way I rather have the federal police taking care of a murder case, I'd like to have a state accountable entity taking care of botnets, not a private corporation.
And yes, I do think a corporation is evil by definition, business should never grow big enough or merge to be considered corporations. Capitalism can't work correctly unless we have a lot of economic actors of a relative equal size. The relationship between corporations and oligopolies is incredibly high.
