New Zealand Police this week swooped on an alleged botnet operator in New Zealand, who the FBI claims had illegal control over one million computers.
Symantec is hoping to fight the growing threat from spyware and adware by improving its corporate antivirus application and updating the software in its security appliances.
Five Internet Service Providers have been recruited by the government to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch DDoS attacks from Australia.
Personal computers that play unwitting host to zombie code are proliferating at a startling pace, according to a new report.
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If providers don't pitch in against the threat, customers might defect -- and the health of the Net itself could suffer.
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