White House Pushing Programs to Fight Computer Viruses

Internet-service providers and financial-services companies would share data about networks of infected computers known as botnets under a pilot program announced by the Obama administration. The White House also unveiled a voluntary set of principles developed by an industry group to prevent and detect botnets and a consumer-education campaign about the computer viruses.

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