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May 31, 2012

Marketplace Tech Report for Thursday, May 31, 2012

Botnets are series of computers that are infected without their owners knowing it. Those computers — possibly your computer — are then used to send spam, relay stolen data, all sorts of bad stuff. Corporate bigwigs met for a summit on botnets at the White House yesterday, trying to find a way to make sure computers aren’t infected with bad software.

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Botnets are series of computers that are infected without their owners knowing it. Those computers — possibly your computer — are then used to send spam, relay stolen data, all sorts of bad stuff. Corporate bigwigs met for a summit on botnets at the White House yesterday, trying to find a way to make sure computers aren’t infected with bad software.