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Those Pirated Versions of Windows 7 RC Are Building a Botnet
10:01AM Jason Chen | The botnet just added 25,000 users in the last few weeks. Nice job, geniuses. Couldn’t you have downloaded it from Microsoft directly? [MSDN] More »
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Reminder: How to Fix Conficker
11:00AM Matt Buchanan | Afraid you’ve got the evil Conficker worm that’s already begun snaking its way around the world? Thanks to herculean efforts by researchers, the detection and fix is pretty easy. More »
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Breaking: Cranky Windows Guy’s Day Ruined by ‘Really Nasty’ Trojan on His PC
7:10AM Matt Buchanan | Gizmodo’s cranky Windows guy, Adam Frucci, just had the spring stolen from his dance step by a nasty trojan he discovered on his PC. I sure hope it’s not it’s not Conficker. More »
Software
OS X iWork Trojan Revamped, Repackaged, Rereleased in Photoshop
11:28PM John Herrman | The nasty OS X trojan from last week has resurfaced, and this time hits software pirates where it hurts the most: in Photoshop. More »
Software
Torrented Copies of iWork ‘09 Come Laced With a Nasty OS X Trojan
6:20AM John Mahoney | This may be a first for the Mac software world, and it’s not cool at all: ill-gotten copies of iWork ‘09 circulating on Torrent sites contains OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, which is something you don’t want.
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Chinese Interweb Is Number One Target For Malware
3:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | Chinese internet users have become the top target for malware, according to a new security report by Microsoft. The company said that about 47 percent of software “exploits” it found, including ones that can record keystrokes and steal passwords, in the first half of 2008 were in Chinese, while only 23 percent were in English. More »
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