Bot or malware. Really! For Apple. Disaster.

I don't care what Apple's company line is about malware. I've been hacked and something creepy installed. On Friday, August 13 2010, according to the logs. It calls itself " fcukuW " and my machine is a bit haywire. This thing is down in the Main System Files, I can't open any Preferences files in Library, and if I try iTunes opens and a random song will play.
When I'm watching the logs and pull the ethernet cable it screams about being "cut off from the red stream".
And the computer is slow as a garden slug, I suspect all my traffic is being routed and logged through somewhere. I have lawsuits brewing, but it may just be China botting Apples at last.
And more. BUT- How do I get rid of it? If I reload the operating system it's then sitting in a file, and who wants to bet it gets loose? Ever try to throw away an old OS? It takes your iTunes, iPhoto, and other apps with it! (I've done this).
What do I do? If I get a new machine it could ride my files in. I don't know of any bug killers- Apple says we don't need them and they're mostly right.

There were files all over, they disappeared after I told my mom I have an appointment at the FBI Cyber Crimes lab. And I caught the brother coming out of my room. There are invisible files in Library under Preferences; they flicker periodically. And Preferences files are all booby trapped to not open; double click on one and iTunes opens. Rather clever.
Yeah, I DO have it on password needed every ten seconds for everything. But I'm sure they show up in any monitoring being done on my traffic. Fishing for who my lawyer is would be a big part of it. So it's become useless.
Maybe I need to just call back that guy at FBICCLab and cry until he takes it in. They ought to bust idiots like this before he just gets worse. And what's at stake property and chattels wise is considerable. And even if he installed it, there appears to be a signature of who wrote it. Big Federal crimes all around.
I used to know how to invisible a file, but forgot since I don't break, enter and steal or harrass.And I'm having trouble with ClamXav. There may be armament against that in Psycho Bug. It flickers and I see it... or them. But I can't open them.
I copied the logs that record what it does. I don't have a clue what all those numbers mean. And things have been entered at the command line, I would think some one an iota more computer literate than me could pull that up. I don't know how. But a copy of the Terminal icon was left out where I couldn't miss it re-titled something I can't post on a family sight. Any place the machine says "owned by" it's no longer me. It's fcukuW. And more....
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