Microsoft and the DOJ have several times gone to a judge to get permission to take over botnets. The reason being that to do so they take over the botnet and the result is of course that if they control the botnet they then have control of those computers. But you can't completely disassemble some botnets without taking it over.
There you go.
Microsoft and the DOJ have several times gone to a judge to get permission to take over botnets. The reason being that to do so they take over the botnet and the result is of course that if they control the botnet they then have control of those computers. But you can't completely disassemble some botnets without taking it over.