Personally, I think it’s unbelievable how unaware some folks are when it comes to now securing an OS properly. The article below really sums it all up I think…

Do you want to put the fear of God into a Windows-using friend and get them to switch to Linux?

If you do, you could do far worse than to point them at the excellent story in the Washington Post, “Invasion of the Computer Snatchers,” by Brian Krebs. In this story, Krebs spells out how modern crackers use naïve Windows users and the Internet every day to set up vast botnets that deliver dozens of spyware programs on thousands of PCs.

It’s an ugly story, but it’s also a well-told one. [Read the rest]

Tags: washington post, computer snatchers, modern crackers