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Title	China faced with severe botnet problem
Type	News
Source	IDG News Service 04/22/2008
Summary	China faces a serious threat from botnets, networks of computers infected with software that allows them to be controlled remotely for denial-of-service attacks and to send spam, according to a report issued by China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT). continue

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