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Attack of the Zombie Computers Is Growing Threat

Front page story by John Markoff from yesterday’s New York Times about how zombie PCs — Windows machines controlled by malware — are a burgeoning plague. One small line about the Mac:

So far botnets have predominantly infected Windows-based computers, although there have been scattered reports of botnet-related attacks on computers running the Linux and Macintosh operating systems.

Scattered reports from whom?

★ Monday, 8 January 2007