Microsoft Uses Courts to Take Down Botnet

Microsoft and the Botnet Task Force have struck again, and this time against one of the United States largest spam producers. Microsoft petitioned the U.S. courts for a take down order against domains associated with the Waledac botnet.

The order, which was granted by the court, allows traffic to be restricted from 277 domains linked to compromised machines. “Waledac is estimated to have infected hundreds of thousands of computers around…