FireEye’s Atif Mushtaq

The bot net itself was brought down primarily by the actions of FireEye’s Atif Mushtaq who had initially reported on July 9th that he had discovered the bot net and what it would take to remove it from all of our inbox’s lives. For those who are wondering FireEye is one of the premiere trackers of spam and malware and tirelessly work to end their reign of annoyance through terror of what can be done to our computers. In Musthtaq’s outline he pinpointed the 3 major servers that ran this four-year-old network of thousands of computers. Not only did he pinpoint them but he laid out a plan on how to take the bot net down once and for all.

FireEye senior scientist Atif Mushtaq, who participated in the demolition, you are talking about him right?? CNN is report some good news for your email inbox: You'll be seeing less spam in it now, thanks to a global takedown effort that knocked one of the world's biggest spammers offline this week.