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Offline Clive

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Digital vaccine needed to fight botnets
« on: November 23, 2010, 17:55 »
The equivalent of a government-backed vaccination scheme is needed to clean up the huge numbers of PCs hijacked by cyber criminals, suggests research.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11811939

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Re: Digital vaccine needed to fight botnets
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2010, 18:02 »
First vaccinate the PC owners...  ':|
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Re: Digital vaccine needed to fight botnets
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2010, 21:34 »
Yup.
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