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it's Monday April night 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on sina com and it's time to get loaded Mac users it's time to start worrying about protecting yourself against malware experts are calling the flashback trojan the largest attack against Mac computers and as of Monday it's estimated to be quietly running on more than 600,000 Mac machines around the world half of those infected computers are in the US and most are running Mac OS X the malware connects the infected machine to a botnet network that can harvest to users information researchers say that since apple computers are growing in popularity it's no surprise the bad guys are targeting max Apple announced it will tighten security in the next version of Mac OS X with a future called gatekeeper in the meantime you can check if you're infected by using a form on the website dr.web calm it's the site of the Russian security firm that's been tracking the spread of flashback if you're infected visit cnet's how to cite for instructions on removing that bug able just got quite a financial boost Microsoft is paying a well more than 1 billion dollars to buy eight hundred patents once the deal is done at the end of the year a will will still have about 300 patents left related to advertising search and other technologies Abel has been working on selling its patents for several months now the founders of YouTube are creating an online magazine service called zine right now the site doesn't reveal much it says the service will let users discover and create beautiful magazines and visitors can reserve a username now before it launches Sony is expected to cut 10,000 jobs by the end of the year according to a report from a Japanese business newspaper the move would knock six percent of its global workforce also seven executives may be asked to forfeit their bonuses the firings come at the heels of bad news sunny just reported it lost 3.2 billion dollars in the 2011 fiscal year the Nokia Lumia 900 went on sale sunday but already it's off to a pretty good start at least on Amazon both the black and blue models of the Windows Phone are the top two phones on Amazon's cellphone bestseller list of course now we have to from AT&T to know those store sales numbers nokia really needs this phone to do well to succeed in the US and ATT is doing a big marketing push for the phone spending a reported 150 million dollars on advertising those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey frisina com and you just been loaded