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Is your PC doing a hacker's dirty work?

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The BBC has acquired control of 22,000 home computers as part of an investigation into hi-tech crime.

Click's Spencer Kelly talks to Jacques Erasmus from Prevx about how hackers use these hijacked machines to send out millions of spam messages.

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