One spam controlling source, McColo in San Jose, was shut down. The result was that the botnet it controls basically had nothing to do. This botnet is responsible for 60% of spam, and its demise means everyone is noticing a 60% drop in spam worldwide in one single day! We have noticed it internally, dropping from 250K message daily to 90K.
Our phones at Maysoft are ringing with SpamSentinel customers who want to know where their spam is. Well, it never arrived in the first place!
Maybe if we can get 3 or 4 more of these firms shut down, I can take a vacation!
Seriously, though, I fear for the millions of rogue computers who no longer have a way to phone home to McColo. What if they have some malicious code built in if they cannot communicate to the controlling servers for x days? Sort of like a rogue army, with no leader?
I would prefer that they self-destruct, but, alas, that is just wishful thinking.
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