Assuming your backup is recent enough that you haven't used up all of your key pool... restoring a wallet to a new (or old) location and rescanning the block chain should leave you with all your coins. Just follow these steps:
Shut down the Bitcoin program.
Copy your backed-up wallet.dat into your bitcoin data directory.
If copying into existing profile, delete files blk*.dat to make the client re-download the block chain.

So what you're saying is that robots will come self aware and develop a survival instinct?

I would be interested in your musings about how this would come to be.

I'm not asking for accurate numbers, I'm asking for any confirmed botnet reports, and evidence as to them being GPU based, as you so casually stated that they were.

What you are telling me is that because an automated system on deepbit, which admittedly catches many regular users (unless you are suggesting your friend is a botnetter) by its aggressive settings, is the only suggestion that botnets "might be out there".

That is hardly conclusive evidence of the roving bands of GPU botnets you claim.

CPU botnets are the most likely, and even those are not very likely, nor clearly are they being very successful.

Q: How many botted machines do you typically gain per month or per campaign.
A: about 500-1000 a day, weekends more. I'm thinking about just buying them in bulks and milking them for bitcoins. Asian installs are very cheap, 15$/1000 installs and have good GPUs.

In contrast, the newest Bitcoin malware takes full advantage of the computing power on each compromised machine—including its GPU.

The Trojan will then run one of the following Bitcoin mining programs:
If a GPGPU-enabled graphics card is found, it runs Phoenix Miner.
Otherwise it runs RPC Miner.

A smart GPU botnet would of course create a different account for each worker but that is sooooo much work, right? ;-)

I can't confirm if it's hackable or not, just not that many people bother. With all the su/sudo things that need to be run...I just don't see it happening.
Of course, if you have a proof-of-concept way to hack Linux, please provide it to #linux on irc.freenode.net.

A former political organizer for Mr. Tremblay’s party says the mayor was one of three people in a 2004 meeting where a Union Montréal official showed the two sets of books the party was keeping – clean records designed to fall within spending limits and satisfy the chief electoral officer, and an unofficial cash-only accounting that had the party spending double the $46,000 campaign limit.

Mr. Dumont described how the money flowed from a dozen construction bosses, who the inquiry has heard had close connections to the mob. The bosses made dozens and dozens of visits to the offices of both the party and local politicians, usually with the blinds drawn, from 2004 to 2010. The bosses also bought tickets to fundraising events with little regard for spending limits, he said.

Mr. Dumont described several instances where cash flowed wildly. At one point, cash donations stuffed a party safe until it was impossible to close. At one event, chief fundraiser Bernard Trépanier could no longer button his coat, its pockets were so full of envelopes of cash. A student who was working as a receptionist for the summer complained to him that she had spent all day locked up in Mr. Trépanier’s office counting out $850,000 in cash.

Please excuse me (instead of attack me) if I’m wrong but isn’t it illegal everywhere to deface money? You are all posting pictures with the money you have defaced. If some government had a pet peeve against Bitcoin they might want to come after you to set an example. Or do you guys just think this is so unlikely that you’re going to do it anyway?

Your ISP should lock ips coming from outside their allocated network, same should a server provider.
Quite curious on how easy/hard it's to fake an ip source anyway.

-S <IP_Address> (Spoof source address)
In some circumstances, Nmap may not be able to determine your source address (Nmap will tell you if this is the case). In this situation, use -S with the IP address of the interface you wish to send packets through.

Another possible use of this flag is to spoof the scan to make the targets think that someone else is scanning them. Imagine a company being repeatedly port scanned by a competitor! The -e option and -Pn are generally required for this sort of usage. Note that you usually won't receive reply packets back (they will be addressed to the IP you are spoofing), so Nmap won't produce useful reports.

Routers are designed to reject these packets.
It's a security flaw if that wouldn't happend.

Impersonation. In the DNS attacks, each attacking host uses the targeted name server's IP address as its source IP address rather than its own. The effect of spoofing IP addresses in this manner is that responses to DNS requests will be returned to the target rather than the spoofing hosts.