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Yesterday, Symantec and Microsoft technicians, together with U.S. federal marshals, raided data centers in Manassas, VA and Weehawken, N.J., shutting down servers, preventing users from accessing the internet, and pushing the above message to an estimated one million infected computers. If you were one of those caught in the process, while it may have been inconvenient, you were playing a small part in taking down a very big global cyber crime operation known as the Bamital botnet.