Microsoft has opened a front in its ongoing battle against Internet scammers, using the power of a U.S. court to deal a knockout blow to an emerging botnet and taking offline a provider of free ...

The Waledac takedown is the culmination of a months-long investigation and legal strategizing on the part of Microsoft in an effort known as "Operation b49." The software giant received a temporary ...

Czech based free domain provider dotFree Group has settled the lawsuit brought against it by Microsoft in the Kelihos takedown case by suspending all abusive hosts registered through its service and ...

Microsoft today announced the takedown of a botnet known as Kelihos, which controlled 41,000 computers worldwide and was capable of sending 3.8 billion spam e-mails per day. While not as massive as ...