Microsoft gains US court approval to deactivate 277 domain names

According to the Wall Street Journal report, Microsoft Corp has won a US court approval to deactivate a global network of computers that the company blamed for spreading spam and harmful computer codes. 

A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, granted Microsoft’s request to deactivate 277 Internet domains, which the company said is linked to a "botnet". 

The company achieves to secretly sever communications channels to the botnet before its operators can re-establish links to the network, the paper said.

Earlier this week, on Monday, the software corporation filed a suit that targets a botnet identified as Waledac.

On February 18, Internet security firm NetWitness said in a report that a new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites.