FBI Acting Against Botnets, Classified As Emerging Threat

Um, botnets have been an existing problem for sometime now. According the FBI press release, here’s what you can do to protect yourself.

Make sure your anti-virus software is up to date, install a firewall, use complicated passwords and be careful opening e-mail attachments and advertisers’ links on Web sites, the bureau advised.

Sentences like that are exactly the reason the public is confused. Use complicated passwords for what? Protections need to be built into the system.