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Between March 15th and March 17th, global spam volumes fell by 33.6% according to a Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence report. We can all thank Microsoft for this global improvement. The Rustock botnet takedown has been a good thing, spam in a single week has reduced from 52 billion to 33 billion. …

Microsoft and federal law agents have managed to seize equipment from Internet hosting facilities across America in the efforts to stop junk email being sent across the internet. Microsoft have launched these raids as part of a civil lawsuit which was filed in federal court in Seattle last month against …