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Old Aug 14, 2009, 09:31 PM   #1
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Symantec discovers a botnet on Twitter
A Twitter account can be used as the command center for harnessing a "botnet" of virus-infected computers, security firm Symantec has found. In a blog post Friday, analyst Peter Coogan wrote that researchers found an account, @upd4t3, which was tweeting out links to download a piece malware called Downloader.Sninfs. The account has since been suspended by Twitter.
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tsk tsk.
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So, Twitter does have a use........................ imagine that.
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