OK, is this Democrats building a Republican botnet ...

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

or Republicans infecting themselves ... or ...

Junk mail ostensibly promoting software that allows anti-Obama-ists to become 
cyberactivists says: “If You don’t like Obama come here, you can help to ddos his 
site with your installs.” The terse spam message links to a website where 
prospective marks are offered money for installing the “packet flinging” tool. 
Visitors to the site advertised by the spam are told to come back regularly for 
updates and warned that security scanner software may come to identify the 
software on offer as malign, and consign it to quarantine. That is certainly true, 
though not for the reasons suggested.  

The spam was one theme of a larger spam run. Other spam messages in the series 
offered more typical lures, such as pornography, while again pointing to the same 
malware download.  Leaving aside ethical concerns and potential for prosecution, 
it is always more likely that any supposed U.S. President website attack tool would 
turn compromised machines into spam-relaying zombies than anything else. 
“Regardless of your political leanings — installing such software is a really bad 
idea”  

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/19/obama_ddos_tool_ruse/ 

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