Tuesday, a federal court in Chicago has frozen the assets of a spam network known to the authorities and that HerbalKing ordered the group to stop. According SpamHous, an anti-spam research group, non-profit, at some point HerbalKing was responsible for about a third of all spam on the Internet. HerbalKing The network used a global network of computers infected with malicious software from sending billions of messages a day, promoting various pharmaceutical products primarily. Officials and investigators say that this international operation of spam may be the biggest they have ever met. F.T.C. Commissioner Jon Leibowitz hoped that "at some level this will help make a small dent in the amount of spam coming into consumers' in-boxes", but Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at the firm's anti-spam security fight against Sophos said that "it would not be a surprise if people do not notice any difference in their box."
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