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Somewhere along the way I got a stink about me that just doesn’t wash off.  Like your own smell, this smell is something I can’t notice, but everyone else around me seems to be able to sense it right away.  As best as I can tell its not actually a smell, but some other sort of sensory effect though.  People I barely know or have just met seem to believe I know all about computers.  I don’t believe I know that much, but this funk has got people asking me to fix things. 

Usually I know how to fix their computer problems, but it baffles my mind to wonder how they knew I would know.  I don’t go around wearing a jump drive on a chain, or carry a laptop, or really do anything computer related in my daily life.  Still word seems to get out that I’m the guy to talk to when you have become infested with spyware.  Of course the problem is compounded when its someone close to me because I can’t fake my way out of it.  They actually do know I know how to fix their computers so denying it won’t help.

Anyhow, what I’m getting to is that recently a relative dropped by with a pc infested with trojans and asked me to kill them.  As I was spending hours of my time doing something other that what I wanted to do that day, an old thought came back to me.  Why are the people who create this adware crap getting away with it?  I know they are violating at least a dozen laws here in the USA, and there are similar laws in pretty much every country in the world.  It really wouldn’t be hard to find them.  (I’m talking to you now FBI folks.)

The purpose of the adware spyware trojan is to hijack peoples computers and make their internet box show webpages that the hacker wants people to see.  Then the hijacker collects money from ad revenue.  Now I’m no fool, I know somewhere along the lines there is someone who actually gets that check.  I also know that while the hackers may have control of millions of pc’s, they don’t control the banks.  All the feds need to do is ask the ad companies who’s bank account the ad revenu is going into.  Even if the hackers establish a virtually unfollowable path through the computer networks they are easily exposed by following the money.  A couple of warrants and I’d say 90% of this computer terrorism could be eliminated. 

Its not widely known, but the first world trade center bombing was funded by gains from a coupon fraud ring.  Now the feds monitor coupon redemption for fraud.  It seems to me that the ad fraud that is going on opens up alot more potential for some terrorist group to buy truckloads of chemicals.  This money leak needs to be stopped and our government needs to do it.  I just wonder why we have to wait until after they blow up the white house before the feds figure out where they got the money and plug the hole?

Anyhow, just a passing thought.  Why are the folks who aren’t smart enough to install their own software bieng taken advantage of by cyber terrorists and our government doing nothing about it.  Instead the beurocrats are wasting time trying to pass bills about anti-phishing suits that will do nothing to curb the problem.  Theres plenty of legislation, its time for action!