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Bot herder pleads guilty to 'zombie' sales
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-23

A 20-year-old California man plead guilty to federal charges that he sold access to networks of compromised PCs and made money from illicitly installed adware, prosecutors announced on Monday.

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Bot herder pleads guilty to 'zombie' sales 2006-11-01
Anonymous
Ok, a good start.

Are the government going to chase the people that paid him to provide this service?

They are after all complicit and if anything encouraging him. The government needs to make a show of force and go after the source of their money, few of these guys will do this for free.

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