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A clean-up operation following the takedown of what has been described as the biggest cyber-scam scam ever has begun. Six Estonian suspects have been charged, and one Russian suspect remains at large, over a malware-based DNS changer scam that affected 4 million PCs worldwide, generating an estimated $14m in the process. The …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Aaah

    So that's why El Reg's forums were down for a while this afternoon. I guess that's one way to bring the bad news ;-)

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    And you trust the FBI ?????

    With the US record on privacy who is going to fall for downloading software supplied by the Feds.

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  3. eulampios

    nice ad

    So when you buy a PC from a major OEM, does it along with "Such -and-Such recommends Microsoft Windows whatever!" add the following : "...and biggest botnets delightfully approve this message!"?

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  4. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Devil

    "chief exec of Rove Digital"

    Turd Blossom is alive!

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