creative_craig - 8:37 am on Feb 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

A US judge granted the firm's request to shut down 277 internet domains, which it said were used to "command and control" the so-called Waledac botnet.

A recent analysis by the firm found that between 3-21 December "approximately 651 million spam e-mails attributable to Waledac were directed to Hotmail accounts alone".

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[edited by: bill at 8:40 am (utc) on Feb 26, 2010]
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