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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7079777.stm)*
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At some point this evening I am going to have to sit down with my fourteen year old son and have a quiet, paternal word with him about hygiene and trust.
It’s nothing to do with how frequently he showers or changes his socks, and only indirectly related to how freely he should accept sweets from strangers.
The problem is with his computer, as only six months after he moved from using a virus-prone Windows PC to a Macintosh computer the first serious threat to Mac users has been observed “in the wild”.
It’s a Trojan Horse, a piece of code that pretends to do one thing but actually compromises your computer.
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