Cybercrime Treaty vs. Malware Botnet Cartel?

As concise as possible, this is a very, very great news story. Personally as an Advanced User average consumer on PC - I launched a personal community website for malware removal and computing safety ongoing to best save a lot of aggravation and time for the newer community members of the world web, as we all have gone through with the advent of spyware from early adware days (lost innocence). Actually with 4 million (hits) visitors in just 2 years and various groups and forums I have been to - it is almost too easy to conclude that malware and the removal and protection against it is practically too much of a learning curve for a major percentage of home and even office computer users, and I mean that includes the most simple basic protection of antivirus softwares. In 2007, the best of the best (including Serf) estimated 7 to 11 percent of world computers were hijacked into malware botnets (zombie networks / slang). In year 2008 now, the estimate has dramatically increased to 1 out of 4 (yes 25 percent) are hijacked by infection (virus/worm) and infestation (spyware). Looking at that - yes real numbers have almost doubled in one year. This is an impossible subject to cover in one paragraph, but... to roughly sum up - I concluded last year with personal experience and others that it will take a concerted World Government empowered legally to smash what I call the "Malware Botnet Cartel". I think even the newbie immediately perceives the internet does not exist withour internet commerce and that is what is in danger beyond the tragedies of individual horrors of IDTheft directly attributed to cyber crime and crimewares employed - and these are in part and wholly being swallowed up by the 'botmasters' who are engaging "BotLord" wars like an American Mafia movie in today's terms of Gang Wars. This news story is perhaps the heart of this and perhaps the real and actual light at the end of the tunnel. There comes the point when the various Governments are going to have to be trusted to "purge the system" of all malwares and rouge computers of criminals with wholesale arrests of the cyber criminals. Laws will need to be temporarily suspended to accomplish this or, otherwise, it will take more and more years of legislation with all the arguements to get it passed at the expense of all the not-so-advanced users. Case in point, USA Better Business Bureau places crimeware IDTheft in the USA alone at 45 Billion dollars for just year 2007 ! This "Cyber Crime Treaty" may actually be that 'silver bullet' the security industry and users have longed for blindly even.

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