With a judicial assist, Microsoft has perfected a new superweapon to shoot down botnets, the engines cybergangs use to deliver malicious Internet attacks.
The U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia last week granted a motion that, in effect, gives Microsoft permanent ownership of 276 Web domains once used by the Waledac cybergang to send instructions to hundreds of thousands of spam-spreading PCs.
Cybersleuths and attorneys at Microsoft’s digital crimes unit actually decapitated the Waledac botnet in February by persuading District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema to issue a temporary restraining order to take the 276 domains offline.
Brinkema’s order was unusual because the owner of the domains could not be reached and thus did not have a day in court to protest, says Microsoft senior attorney Richard Boscovich Sr.
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Standard Messages for Social Networks from Softheme
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Continuing the topic of standard messages and sample documents suggested to customers in our web development practice, we would like to share the following standard messages we offer which are used in social networking sites to inform users about various stuff. Here are the most common of such messages:
1. Registration Confirmation – Letter sent to website user to confirm his/her registration
Dear, <name>
Thank you for registering at <company name>.
To proceed using your account, please, confirm your registration by following the link: <link>.
If the above link does not open, copy it to clip board, paste it into browser address line and press enter.
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Tags: account, browser, comment, confirmation, link, message, newsletter, photo, registration, sign-up, Social network, template, url, video, Web development, web page, website
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