The move made it temporarily impossible for the infected PCs around the world to search the Web, although the companies offered free tools to clean the machines through messages that were automatically pushed out to the infected computers.
Technicians working on behalf of both companies raided datacentres in Weehawken, New Jersey, and Manassas, Virginia, on Wednesday, accompanied by US federal marshals, under an order issued by the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.
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