Rustock, the transmitter of highest number of spam e-mails among all the networks of the world, was taken down by Microsoft and federal law enforcement agents, last week.

Rustock faced several coordinated raids, which were triggered by Microsoft’s request to disclose the lawsuit filed by the company.

Rustock has infected millions of computers with its malicious code. The main purpose of this botnet was to add on to the spam sending network, for spreading the infection.

Richard Boscovich, senior attorney in the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit blogged, "This botnet is estimated to have approximately a million infected computers operating under its control and has been known to be capable of sending billions of spam mails every day.”

With its recently released Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft is all set to give a tough competition to Google's Chrome browser.

IE 9 is faster, more adaptable and has several improved technical aspects to attract people, who are using Firefox, Opera and any other web browsers.

Here are some reasons why consumers and enterprise customers should download this browser and try it out:

Excellent speed
Internet Explorer 9, the fastest browser Microsoft has ever launched has an advanced JavaScript engine ‘Chakra,’ and it adopts a hardware acceleration technique with the help of today's PC components such as the CPU and GPU, for speedy delivery of web pages.

Last Monday, Microsoft had launched its much awaited and extremely hyped new browser Internet Explorer 9 at the South By Southwest technology conference in Austin, Texas.

The event was hosted by the Corporate Vice President of Internet Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch.

At the event, he announced that IE9 will be available for download from Microsoft's "Beauty of the Web" site from 9:00 PM Pacific time, on Mar. 14.

The browser will be available in 39 languages and will run only on Microsoft's Windows 7 and Vista operating systems.

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