http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCWorld/story?id=4083225 

Kind of interesting, though it's not the low-hanging fruit.  Rather than
attack the PC itself, which is normally cleanable, attackers could create a
rogue version of DD-WRT that installed on any susceptible routers.  Most
people leave their broadband routers with default passwords and IP settings,
so an 'upgrade' might go on unnoticed.  From that point, no matter what the
subscriber did to clean their computer, they would never be clean.

Again, unlikely, but a story like this makes for good headlines.

Frank

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