Initially the FBI said it wanted to track down infected computers in the botnets it had identified and warn their owners.

最初，FBI表示，它希望在僵尸网络中追捕到它已确定并警告过其拥有人的那些受感染电脑。

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Most owners of infected computers neither know nor care that their machines may be damaging an unknown person in an unknown way.

大多数受感染的电脑的使用者既不了解也不关心他们的电脑可能正以某种未知的方式损害到某个未知者。

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Torpig is a type of malicious software called a Trojan that hides in infected computers, allowing them to be controlled remotely.

Torpig是一种称为“特洛伊木马”的恶意软件，隐藏在受感染的电脑中。

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The idea being if I find a pattern across multiple people's computers maybe all of those people are infected with the same kind of malware or virus or worm.

如果我从不同人的计算机中发现了一个模型,这就说明,所有那些人的计算机都感染了相同的,恶意软件，病毒或蠕虫。

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When downloaded, the tainted versions of the report allowed hackers to remotely control infected computers.

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The botnet also had the ability to use the infected computers to "recruit" other machines into the network.

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Several versions instructed infected computers across myriad time zones to download a Trojan at the same single, synchronized moment.

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