[Scspamcop] Re: OT, Ralsky Indictment (Link)

[Geoffrey Hyde]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message 
news:flm7pu$7m3$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting wrote:
>> Bar0 wrote:
>>> The Indictment of Ralsky is published at:
>>>
>>> http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/January/08_crm_003.html
>>
>> Three+ years to come up with a 41-count indictment against 11 people.
>
> Ralsky's name is on an indictment list.  He isn't arrested and he isn't
> currently in-country.

The real question is when is anyone going to stand up and do something about 
all of these compromized zombie PC's on the internet.  Have any of the news 
services actually published headlines about infected zombie PC's being 
cleaned up and removed from the zombie pool?  I'll bet I know why because it 
hasn't happened, and won't, for quite some time.

There are still an awful lot of them out there, and plenty of zombie bot 
masters willing to take them over if one should fall and leave a void.

It's all well and good expecting people to be informed by authorities that 
their PC is infected, however, the larger problem is that of educating users 
and getting them cleaned up by the user or having a computer expert do it 
for them, which costs money whether it be the government, ISP, or user 
paying for the clean-up job.

These PC's all have physical locations, however, I can hardly see a judge 
willing to issue cleanup orders for over a million PC's.  I'll bet it's even 
less likely that anyone would want the job of carrying out those cleanup 
orders if they were ever issued.

Cheers ...

Geoffrey Hyde