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A Denver woman’s PC gets infected by remote-access malware. Later, armed police come knocking and seize her PC as evidence. According to the local ABC news:

Investigators said someone hacked into [Serry] Winkler’s computer … and used it with a stolen credit card to make fraudulent purchases online … "Four sheriffs from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office with flak jackets and weapons drawn pounded on my door," said Winkler. "You’re just not prepared for it." … Winkler didn’t have a firewall on her computer, which she said was too old. "I’ve tried it, but it just slows it down so badly that I can’t," she said.

We say: Good, because in many ways, we’re glad this happened and that it’s getting some publicity (albeit local). While we’re sad that Ms. Winkler was scared and inconvenienced, a few more stories of this sort might actually make people more likely to protect their PCs. That ought to put a serious dent in the spam-spewing botnet problem.

… Richi Jennings, with thanks to Paul Ferguson