Online Crooks Getting More Professional

September 17, 2007 By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Online crooks are quickly enlarging an already vast sales and distribution network to propagate spam and send malicious software in hopes of infecting millions of computers worldwide, according to a new report.

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