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Stop the bots
Kelly Martin, 2006-04-18

Botnets are a major source of evil on the Internet, from spam, phishing attacks, virus propagation and denial-of-service attacks to the stealing of financial information and other illegal activity. Does disbanding them raise legal and ethical implications?

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Re: Don't use Microsoft Windows 2006-04-21
Kelly Martin
Actually it wouldn't be the end of the problem at all. There are enough Web vulnerabilities now that it's quite easy for Linux or Mac running a web app to be brought into a botnet......

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