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More than 1 million computers were infected with botnets when the FBI announced Bot Roast in June, and roughly 1.5 million more have been identified since then, the FBI said. Industry numbers suggest there are as many as 5 million infected computers.

On the one hand I'm glad the FBI is taking this to heart. Certainly people need to go to jail for this sort of thing.

But I'm abashed by statements like this:

Protecting your computer is as easy as "putting locks on your doors and windows," according to an FBI news release. Make sure your anti-virus software is up to date, install a firewall, use complicated passwords and be careful opening e-mail attachments and advertisers' links on Web sites, the bureau advised.

I've had servers rootkitted, a style of attack that's becoming increasingly sophisticated and hard to detect; and now the botnets are attacking the machines of security researchers who try to find out more about them.

Is this really what the FBI considers "simple"?
I have a creepy feeling the Feebs are asking for trouble with this sort of talk...


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