Here's the text of the article: The Rustock botnet, an international network of virus-infected computers, had for years generated billions of emails per day, promoting unlicensed online pharmacies and cut-price impotence pills. But on Wednesday, security firms noticed email traffic from Rustock completely collapsed. It has now been revealed that Microsoft, backed by US Marshals acting on a court order, seized servers that it's estimated covertly controlled almost a million Windows PCs. "We think this has been 100 per cent effective," said Richard Boscovich, senior attorney in Microsoft's digital crimes unit, according to the Wall Street Journal. The servers were rented from commercial internet hosting firms across the Mid West, who were apparently unaware of their role in Rustock. These "command and control" servers would issue instructions to infected home and business PCs worldwide. The criminals behind the spamming business were named in Microsoft's lawsuit only as "John Does 1-11". To get the court order, which empowered it to seize equipment and so "decapitate" the botnet, Microsoft alleged the John Does infringed its trademarks in some of their emails. I still have the usual half-dozen pieces in my inbox this morning. I want to know why so many people seem to think I have erectile problems. :-) For as much bashing as Microsoft gets it seems they played a key role in all of this. I hoping that "backed by the U.S. Marshals" means the Marshals were the ones with the guns. Or are there Microsoft police? Perhaps they look like this:

I received a similar email yesterday that might be easier to fall for. It was purportedly from the technical support team & webmail account admin, It stated that my in box was full and to be reactivated I was to send info such as my log in info and password. This looked like it could be real except it didn't mention my name, had at least one misspelled word, legitimate businesses don't ask for that info in an email, and I am still getting mail. While I have gotten several of the Nigerian type, this is the first time I have received a phishing email of this type. BEWARE!

I get a few a day with my hotmail account that I have had since I first got on the internet back then it was with msn dial up. Maybe like 4 a day, many days none. I have a yahoo account that gets little usage, it is as mentioned one of the extra accounts, I hardly ever have spam. I have a gmail account, which is basically my second used account. It will get a few a month not many. I have no special filters set on any of them just the normal spam filters turned on. I have 2 accounts with comcast who is my ISP, I have never used either one for email, one is tied to an online account and I get updates there but no spam. The other one which I have never ever sent out an email from or received one for myself, well that one has tons of emails and spam on it every time I check it which is rarely. I have no idea why. I think possibly someone else had that same email address previously with comcast and it was terminated and I am now getting all the residuals. Very strange. IN fact the one time I was going to use that address was to sign up for an account and I got a message back saying that email address was already in use by someone else. Changing to a new account is easy and you can still use yahoo just change to a new account, don't close the old one leave it alone. Inform all your legit contacts of the new address so they start to use it instead of the old one. You can still access the old one for whatever you have on it if you don't either transfer it to the new account or save it to your computer. but the new email address will be fresh and should not be getting all the spam. Just be sure you do turn on all the security and spam features in settings. It is never a good idea to store things on your email account. To often they can be lost due to something happening on their servers. If it is important save it to your computer or to an online storage site.

Besides that I got a announcement from my bank stating that they had upgraded the privacy notice. I did not like something I saw, so called the bank. Yep, it was phis hing and he had me forward it to the bank and suggested I change my name and password. It was in my regular email, not spam. Something else came in, and I deleted that also. Just have to be careful