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Microsoft beheads giant zombie spam network |
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Written by Pedram Hayati
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 03:23 |
SMH.com.au: Microsoft has combined technology with an "extraordinary" legal manoeuvre to cripple a massive network of hacked computers that had been flooding the internetwith spam.
The software titan's digital crime unit got clearance from a US judge to virtually sever the cyber criminals' command computers from hundreds of thousands of machines worldwide infected with a Waledac virus.
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