TR Editors' blog: Get Paid to Install Malware

In the Emerging Technologies Wednesday Update (02/03/2010) newsletter there is this article Get Paid to Install Malware that highlights the new techniques used bot.net administrators to gain control of more machines. These techniques explains why it is so difficult to identify the malware infections as well as the infections keep increasing.

Hopefully, this information will help you, the average computer user,
protect yourself. As always I recommend using Linux as it provides
superior protection from malware and hackers. And Linux is free.