Marketplace Tech Report for April 15, 2011

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The government takes over a botnet

by Molly Wood

Apr 15, 2011

Botnets are vast networks of infected computers, often over a million machines strong, that carry out nefarious functions without the owners' knowledge. And now one of them has been taken over by the government.

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