Botnet do da jailhouse rock

Christopher Maxwell, of California was sent to prison for 37 months (3 years) for using viruses to plant adware on people's computers, netting over $100,000. His ring of hackers broke into 629,000 PCs (most running Windows) including several at government installations. Chris is the latest criminal and hacker (no they aren't the same thing) to be jailed for computer crimes in recent months. Botnet (Chris's operation) has been officially shut-down and the good people who were infected by Chris's viruses I'm sure still have the software on their systems. That will keep Geek-Squad in business for a long time. Chris, we're hurt that you would do such a thing. The only question on all of our minds is why?

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