I didn't know

I can see it now. The Gestapo Software Alliance comes crashing through the door, the PC gets confiscated and the friendly government agent that is simply doing the job MICROS~1 forced him to do hands you a subpoena. In court you claim it was because the Sri Lankan mob hijacked your machine and you didn't know about it. An expert witness comes to the stand and confirms that. Plus, he mentions, he found evidence of someone sending out thousands of NIGERIA419 scams that resulted in complaints totalling multi-millons of dollars, stealing credit card numbers, using it as a repository for kiddie love and pbutting coded messages for a number of international person organizations. As the judge dismisses the case, several more friendly government agents step up with shackles and arrest warrants for several acts of criminal activity and investigation of person connections. Naturally, you're surprised. You expected them to just *believe* you'd been hijacked. You had no idea it was actually true! After all, you had the MICROS~1 built-in firewall and ran Norton scans on it every day!

You'd need to make sure you had a jury to try the case. A judge might be in the pocket of the crooks who were trying to make an example of you.

-- Linux: because it's my damn computer!