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Written by Pedram Hayati   
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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