Hi, from New scientist comes this comment:-
Jeremy Ward, service development manager at Symantec, says virus writers can make good money by selling botnets to online extortionists and spammers.

"What we're seeing now is malware, or malicious software, that is truly professional," Ward told New Scientist. "You have the ability to set up botnets for a number of money-making schemes."

Am I the only one to find this comment extraordinary? How does this guy know this and if he does why aren't law enforcement agencies aware of his obvious intelligence on the subject. You see in order to make this statement as factual you would need to know how the money is transferred and who funds the malware development , this is supposed to be beyond law enforcement capability (if it exists then law enforcement cannot currently prevent it presumably because they are unable to track it ) Yet here we have a spokes person for the greatest beneficiary of malware telling us that this happens. Me I smell a RAT.