Comment on: Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit

[kgthan]

First of all, I would like to thank Steven for posting this article! I am delighted Facebook won this judgement and hope to see most of these funds applied to securing their site and 2 new computers for Christmas would be nice!! I've closed my Facebook account. Five hours after turning in several Facebook hackers, my 2 networked computers were attacked from several servers at once and destroyed. Best I can figure is my computer was part of a botnet or "Zombie" computer. (Don't know the legistics here as I am new to learning terms "botnet" "zombie"). Seems to fit my scenario anyways. I had the free versions of AVG, Avira, Spybot and Adaware all running. No detection of malware, spyware or viruses as these programs appear to run fine, update the newest virus patterns, ect... but show no trace of anything out of order until you view your list of processes. Your computer is totally taken over and so are your computer administrative rights. I played Mafia Wars on Facebook with close to 800 Mafia, 30-40 (alarming rate) being computer hackers. I've saved the motherboard and hard-drive as evidence. Not sure what to do with this or even who to contact. I would like to see jail-time served as well for these spammers, not that I think it will happen as someone mentioned they merely create a new account, new user, thus new spammer. Thank God I have no money, don't bank online ect... However, I am quite uncomfortable with these losers having my my name, address and other identity accessed and/or impersonated. Once again Steven, you're a wonderful editor. Thanks for posting. Have a great weekend!