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McAfee Avert Labs Blog - FBI’s ‘Bot Roast’
FBI’s ‘Bot Roast’
Wednesday June 13, 2007 at 11:50 am CST
Posted by Allysa Myers
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Are you one of the millions who’s been infected by a bot?
If you have, the FBI wants to hear about it.
The agency has recently launched “Operation Bot Roast” to coordinate and bring more visibility to their efforts to dismantle botnets. As part of the effort, they’re trying to get people who have been infected with bots to file a complaint through their Web site. If you know that you’ve been infected, please go and file a complaint report. Every report helps identify these criminals and bolster the case against them.
(An anti-phishing reminder: The FBI will not contact you online and request your personal information–you must go to them to make the report.)
So if you’ve been infected, you can do your part to make the net a safer place!
Source: Computer Security Research - McAfee Avert Labs Blog
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing