Spam perseveres, despite Rustock takedown

Global spam dropped by one-third immediately after the Rustock Botnet was dismantled in mid March, according to the March edition of the Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence monthly report.

The output fell dramatically and almost instantaneously, the reports said, suggesting that the botnet was no longer sending any spam and that it had either been taken down or had entered a self-imposed exile, as it did in December 2010 — via redwolf.newsvine.com