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April 17, 2009 - 5:35 A.M.

Mac malware builds botnet, while smug fanbois gently weep

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In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches a Mac OS X Trojan construct a botnet for distributed denial of service attacks and sending spam. Not to mention Drop7...

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