A 21-year-old American has been jailed nearly five years for allegedly building a network of 400,000 Zombie PCs to install adware and send spam.

Jeanson James Ancheta, "came to the attention of the authorities after trying to infect computers at the weapons division of the US Naval Air Warfare Centre in China Lake and the Defence Information Systems Agency," says vnunet.com.

We'd like to ask your opinion on the sentence, says Finland's F-Secure. Accordingly, it's running a pole which asks:

What is your opinion of BotMaster James Ancheta's 57 month jail sentence?

• Too Much
  
• Too Little
  
• Fair Enough - Just Right
  
• No Idea
  

For now, F-Secure also offers other jail terms to think about:

November 2004 - Spammer, Jeremy Jaynes, sentenced nine years.
January 2005 - Blaster.B author, Jeffrey Lee Parson, sentenced 18 months.
July 2005 - Sasser author, Sven Jaschan, sentenced 21 months (Suspended - Age 17 at time of arrest).

Also See:
vnunet.com - Spammer gets five in the slammer, May 10, 2006
F-Secure - Poll: James Got 57 Months, May 9, 2006