A zombies best friend turns out to be Microsoft and ISPs (Internet Service Providers). It works like this. Three months ago, the American FBI announced that Operation Bot Roast had identified over a million compromised PCs, in scores of botnets. The FBI tried to get in touch with as many of these computer users as possible, and direct them to organizations and companies that can help them clean the zombie software out of their computers. Help can be had for free, although many of the compromised PCs were found to be clogged with all manner of malware (illegal software hidden on your machine to feed you ads or simply track what you do). But most of these PC owners could not be reached, or otherwise were unable to fix their computer. [ read more Information Warfare: Bot Roast Turns on its Master]
The FBI asked Microsoft to issue patches to these computers. Microsoft claimed it was too much trouble, the risk of breaking things on users computers was too great.
More information:
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