Court Gives Microsoft Control of Botnet Domains

A federal magistrate judge has recommended that Microsoft be given ownership of 276 Internet addresses used to control "Waledac," a massive botnet that the software company has been working to bring down. The recommendation by Magistrate Judge John F. Anderson of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia is a victory in Microsoft's experimental campaign to wrest control of one of the Net's biggest menaces.

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