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Or how you visited one of "those" websites at home, your laptop introduced a virus at work, and now no one (all 6000-odd corporate PCs) can access the internet because the virus took down the company proxy server (also a true story).

We had an employee who visited an AUTO PARTS SITE that was hacked and infected. It downloaded a backdoor trojan, which allowed installer downloads. In minutes, his machine was swamped with popups, toolbars, fake spyware scanners like Spylocked, and then everything propagated on the network shares. Some of these defeated firewall settings and shut down AV's.

Some of the CNC machine tools were Windows Based (Are they NUTS??).

The machines were running expensive, intricate titanium parts when they went down.

We lost $50,000.

The people who write and distribute many of these are known. Nothing happens to them.

I got infected through a Hotel Site not too long ago. It was the front-end for the in-room internet service. Fortunately, I caught it before I attached to the VPN, or hauled my laptop back to the office.

I imagine that there were a lot of unhappy travellers that day. I tried calling the tech support # on the hotel's website and couldn't get through.

The people who write and distribute many of these are known. Nothing happens to them.

.....that needs to end.....

.....by one means or another.....