How many computer are there on the internet? Lets say between 400m and 1billion... If you converted that to dollars, would you really care if you lost 450k? Probably not!

/wave @ xp(vista, ie)antivirus2008(2009)

"Shockingly – or not as the case may be – the vast majority of netbots run from PCs using a version of Microsoft Windows."

Can you give more specific info on this point please ? - i'd like the figures on how many computers running a variant of linux were part of a botnet.