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Which would be easy to dump off on the provider. "I have a firewall and anti-virus, what more can I be responsible for if my provider isn't securing THEIR network?"

Ignorance of the law isn't a plausible defense in the eyes of the law, but you when you have so many parties besides yourself involved, I would think it would be easier to claim it was something on their end.

It is the case in France. You could see it the same way as a car insurance, you're responsible for any damage it does, except your car can be safely locked in your garage when someone else wrecks it into a porcelain store, and you can't possibly prevent it from happening nor prove that it wasn't yours.

In the US, you aren't responsible for crimes you didn't commit. That means if someone uses your computer to commit a crime, and you didn't intend to help them, you didn't do anything wrong.

Doesn't that not allow for "strict liability" rules?

attractive nuisance.