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"The world's third-biggest botnet, responsible for 18 billion emails every day and 17.4 percent of global spam traffic, has been shut down by security researchers."
The article notes that the botnet was "starved to death" by killing off its command centers faster than its operators could re-establish them.
Security experts collaborated to give the infamous "DNS changer" malware was given a gradual exit from the Internet, and by the July 9 deadline, few users suffered loss of service.