I wonder whether this strategy will really be all that effective. Apparently “Microsoft does not believe the operators of the facilities it raided on Friday, which rent space to clients on computers connected to the Internet, are in league with the people behind the botnets. And those operators said they had no idea that equipment inside their facilities was being used to issue commands to Zeus.”
So did Microsoft just take out a few bots out of thousands? That wouldn’t seem to accomplish much other than keep their outside counsel busy.