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Free-Marketing PC Infiltration Via Botnet

Wow, repeat that headline to someone from the 19th century and they'd call an exorcist. What it means, in words Stephen Colbert would find offensive, is that unbridled capitalism is allowing more Windows PCs to get hacked thanks to a for-hire network of little hacking robot programs or "bots."

According to a PCWorld.com article from yesterday at Yahoo News, "Security researchers studying the latest Internet crime trends have discovered a new Eastern European website that uses a large botnet to infect vulnerable PCs. The operators of the botnet and website charge clients for each successful PC infection."

Pretty cold, huh? And it's much worse than you might think, too.