FBI Releases Results of Operation Bot Roast

coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has released the findings of their recent botnet study and have identified over 1 million botnet crime victims. "The FBI is working with industry partners, including the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University, to notify the victim owners of the computers. Microsoft and the Botnet Task Force have also helped out the FBI. Through this process the FBI may uncover additional incidents in which botnets have been used to facilitate other criminal activity, the FBI said in a statement.Bots are widely recognized as one of the top scourges of the industry. Gartner predicts that by year-end 75% of enterprises 'will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded traditional perimeter and host defenses.'"

Comments

Re:Skip the spammy site

[easyTree]

The majority of victims are not even aware that their computer has been compromised or their personal information exploited,

Indeedy, I seem to recall, a while back, 'hearing' of someone running an xdcc server on an fbi box..

Solution

[LoyalOpposition]

Dear Computer Owner,

            Your computer has been determined to be infected by a malicious program that gives control to another person. Please double-click on the link to find out how to get your computer disinfected.

FBI

No. Really.

Re:Solution

[Novotny]

Where's the link? How can I click it if there's no link?

Re:Solution

[trolltalk.com]

"Gartner predicts that by year-end 75% of enterprises 'will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded traditional perimeter and host defenses.'"

Dear computer owner:

The computer industry has been determines to be infected by malicious 'analysts' who make a living out of regurgitating the same old news every year. God forbid they actually do something constructive for a change.

Anyone else?

[jadin]

Raise of hands for who read that as Operation Pot Roast?? /raises hand

Re:Anyone else?

[Anonymous Coward]

chirp

Are They Allowed To Do This?

[Bob9113]

Is the FBI allowed to do this? Did they get special dispensation from the RIAA and MPAA to work on a project that appears to be completely unrelated to copyright infringement?

Not Sure what's Worse

[MrCopilot]

Finding out that my PC has been Zombified, Or the FBi informing me they found my PC zombified.

Re:I thought I knew what I was doing too

[PitaBred]

Oohh, oooh, analogy time!

"I accidentally got my girlfriend pregnant by pulling out too late. After giving the kid up for adoption, we tried using a condom, but I didn't care for it, so now I'm back to pulling out, and hoping she doesn't get pregnant, because I really don't know what happened the first time."

Re:I thought I knew what I was doing too

[Anonymous Coward]

No, condoms don't have trouble recognizing my video card.

Whoah! What kind of a video card do you use?!