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One possibility no one has yet mentioned: it is illegal to drive a car or SUV or whatever if it is known to be unsafe, and might injure others. In some countries, it is illegal not to help strangers in certain situations - if they are being mugged, for example.

How about if it were made a legal requirement to take at least *some* basic preventive measures against your comp becoming a zombie or virus forwarder? On pain of being susceptble to attacks from the kind of defensive measures this thread is discussing.

I guess this would be jumped on in the US, but other countries may have a less broad definition of what constitutes invasion of privacy.

And something has to be done. Virus related problems are only going to increase.
 
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The phone number works and has a phone system with directory. This would lead me to believe that this is not a hoax or someone has way to much money and time.
 
Given the number of references to them in various articles that I've read from various sources, I think we can consider them confirmed legit.

~J
 
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