Are there evidence of Bots on macs with up to date software?

Comcast has told me I have bots generating from my all mac network. They want me to install Norton Mac antivirus software and pay $100 for someone to analyze my mac. I am actually an internet security expert and I am very doubtful of their claims.
For example they told me they traced my IP address to a bot army. Since I use dynamic DNS with an apple extreme router, I already know that I get a new IP address every few weeks. I wonder how they are tracing IP addresses?
So if I keep Java and my Mac OS up to date, has there been an incidence of a Bot invasion with up to date Mac software that would be found by Norton?

~Bee wrote:
I went over the Comcast forums, and this stuff is all over the place.
The Comcast forums are no different than the Apple forums. The only people posting are the ones having problems. Out of 16 million subscribers, I'm sure there are quite a few bittorrent and peer-to-peer users.
To quote Comcast:
We identify infected computers in several ways. First, we get data from reputable Internet research
groups that specialize in bot identification. The data we get includes a list of Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses that are infected and those that belong to bot command and control channels. Second,
we look for malicious behavior exhibited by bots such as spam, distributed denial of service attacks
and repeated connections requests to known command and control channels. We then aggregate
this data to confirm whether one or more of your computers has been infected.
The way bittorrent and peer-to-peer software works is that your computer will make a massive number of connections to machines looking for software. Some of those servers are what are known as "honeypots". They will collect your IP address, the software or files you are searching for, the software or files you are sharing, and forward it along to Comcast and others. Some of them may try to call you back hoping to find a Windows machine at the other end they can take over (as in a "bot"). That is going to fail on a Mac, but Comcast will know that they tried and then "aggregate" that fact.

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