Botnet Shutdown
If you’re like me and have noticed a big drop in the number of spam posts on your blog in the last few days, this is probably why.
The FBI in the US estimates 1.3 million computers were infected with a virus and under the control of a New Zealand teenager. These computers were apparently used among other things to spam blogs.
Mike on Planb posted about this recently.
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