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http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-software-makers-disrupt-cyber-ring-halt-searches-201207523--finance.html

 

BOSTON (Reuters) - Software makers Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp said they disrupted a global cyber crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their users.

 

Technicians working on behalf of both companies raided data centers in Weehawken, New Jersey, and Manassas, Virginia, on Wednesday, accompanied by U.S. federal marshals, under an order issued by the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.

 

Boscovich told Reuters that he had "a high degree of confidence" that the operation had succeeded in bringing down the cyber crime operation, known as the Bamital botnet.

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/dons tinfoil hat

 

it is all a sham. ring was set up by MS & Symantec.

 

obvious publicity stunt is obvious

 

/puts back on dunce cap

 

Why not a dunce hat AND the brown paper bag of shame?

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