FBI and Botnets

The FBI, along with other global 'partners', is going after those pesky 'botnets'. Those are the computers that are remotely controlled by someone else (the evil hacker) because the users clicked on a link (or visited a web page) that installed some trojan software.

And because the user didn't have current patches and current anti-virus.

One story is here from Infoworld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/14/Global-co-op-feeds-FBI-botnet-fight_1.html?source=NLC-NET&cgd=2007-06-19 .

And a Google News search for similar stories: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=fbi+botnet .

You might be interested in a free (good until October 2007) rootkit detector from the folks at F-Secure (big anti-virus company; good products). It's called BlackLight, and is available here as a free download: http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight/ .