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"The Rustock takedown was the second major botnet takedown Microsoft has spearheaded within the last two years. In 2010, Microsoft asked for and received a court order that shut down a number of malicious domains used by the Waledac botnet. (See the Security Intelligence Report website for more information.) As part of that effort, Microsoft filed a John Doe lawsuit against the anonymous operators of the Rustock botnet, based in part on the abuse of Microsoft trademarks in the bot’s spam."