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Microsoft Now a Crime Fighter?

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    FBN’s Shibani Joshi on Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit working with U.S. Marshalls to raid two sites suspected of being a part of the Zeus computer...

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In today's tech connect Microsoft's known for its windows operating system minutes nearly stagnant stock chart of the last ten years now can add crying fighter -- it's a rap sheet.

Microsoft says it its digital crimes unit community -- -- it to division was behind it take down.

A computer is in office buildings in the states of Illinois and Pennsylvania are responsible for -- huge chunk.

Of online fraud and identity -- computers were part of bottle -- or group of computers apple information like -- -- passwords.

And user names from millions of other computer is.

The sites were raided by Microsoft and US marshals over the weekend and they were infected with the much talked about Zeus.

Virus.

Known for reporting a computer users -- to gain access to username and -- and ends up stealing the victim's identity and muddy.

Like they godly king that they -- is named after the Zeus botnet is all powerful according to Microsoft views has cost over a hundred million dollars an online that's.

And so far thirteen million computers are infected with the virus disease crime where can't sell for anywhere between 700 -- 151000.

Dollars.

Making it a toss -- -- to battle that Microsoft now fighting cybercrime on the side.

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