Grandma is responsible for her windows computer being infected? Please! If a hacker can reach a computer to infect it, then if an antidote can be created to remove those infections, have at it! That has been my thinking since the dawn of botnets. The concept that it would be somehow illegal to attempt to wipeout an infection is as dumb as allowing smallpox to stay around. Anybody user that allowed his PC to be infected, has made his PC become a thread to the infrastructure of the internet. Just like you quarantine people with dangerous diseases, you quarantine and cure PC's connected to the internet. You don't like? Don't participate!
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Grandma is responsible for her windows computer being infected? Please!
If a hacker can reach a computer to infect it, then if an antidote can be created to remove those infections, have at it!
That has been my thinking since the dawn of botnets. The concept that it would be somehow illegal to attempt to wipeout an infection is as dumb as allowing smallpox to stay around. Anybody user that allowed his PC to be infected, has made his PC become a thread to the infrastructure of the internet. Just like you quarantine people with dangerous diseases, you quarantine and cure PC's connected to the internet. You don't like? Don't participate!