businessweek.com— "They watch you surf the Web. They plague you with pop-up ads. Then they cripple your hard drive. Inside the spyware underground by Ben Elgin..."
Jul 7, 2006View in Crawl 4
This is the most important Digg I've seen on this site! Everybody should send this digg link to everybody they know. Truly -- spyware is the most easy-to-stop malware. The violators and their clients are right in our neighborhoods, compromising our PCs and our elected officials -- in our local neighborhoods, destroying trust in commerce, discouraging people from using PCs and the Internet. Silently, making 100M off our time and budgets. It is a good opportunity to inform people with information that they can use to disqualify, embarrass, humiliate and defame any official who has been silent on spyware. If they are -- they simply don't surf the 'Net. Every informed citizen knows about spyware and hates it and wants to do something right now. Right now means today. This malware must be stopped, and every one of their customers (like Vonage) must be put completely out of business, and every elected official who supports spyware must be removed from office. Now. This is the stuff that recalls and impeachments are empowered by. Let's get to work -- copy and paste this link -- send to virtually everybody you know. Thanks Digg. Maybe Direct Revenue will be the first company that we drive out of the country (obviously) as a result of Digg exposure. After they leave the country -- we will then be forced to sanction the country they set-up in. But their clients will also be punished by consumer groups and consumers. Their clients -- like Vonage -- are the real criminals. They empower -- or hire -- the hackers to worm into our PCs and steal our souls. Let's show them how we take care of rogue comanies - -America!
Does that mean -- by their own logic -- that if someone clicks on a Vonage ad they "should have known" is tied to spyware and signs up for Vonage service as a result, it's a stupid thing? Because I'd agree.Calling your customers stupid (you too, Microsoft) for not knowing about the nefarious things their own companies are doing to them seems to be the new hotness.
Seumas is actually right.What year do you f**king think this is? How long have viruses and spyware been known? If you don't know enough about them to go blindly installing s**t, then yes, you deserve every bit of hassle you get. I'm sorry, but maybe I'd sympathize if it were 6 years ago, but people are f**king stupid and unwilling to learn. Natural selection. Get off the internet or you're gonna get compromised.
I'm so glad when you first bought a pc you knew all there is to know. calling people stupid for not knowing better is argent of you. i guess i should bow down to you for you know it all. when i remove all the spy ware and viruses off a customers computer. i load spy boot ad aware fire fox plus more. i teach them how to update plus use them. educate them. you cant just load them and expect them to use it.
"If I ever meet anyone from your company, I will kill you," "I will f------ kill you and your families."Web rage perhaps?Oh well, those 'sons of bitches' may deserve to be pimp-smacked, but they were the reason I switched to linux. And I thank them for that.
" I want to send it to my friend who's family photos (of his new born baby) were destroyed when he tried to remove the spyware from his PC." ah how can you send them if they were destroyed?if you leave your front door open is it still breaking in when someone enters your house?
I've had spyware that AVG didn't even recognise after a full update. I scanned with Ad Aware, Spybot and registry cleaner. Nothing picked it up. It respawned the registry settings and respawned an exe file in c:windows folder. As for the comment on killing them and not killing them because they are just doing their job? That's just stupid - if being a rapist is a job - does that make it ok. The bottom line is - nobody wants their advert spouting, invasion of privacy, system slowing piece of crap software on their computer. Why don't then just f**king stick it. I know there is software to remove it or to protect your system - but why should we even need to have this in the first place.
author20Jul 7, 2006
This is the most important Digg I've seen on this site! Everybody should send this digg link to everybody they know. Truly -- spyware is the most easy-to-stop malware. The violators and their clients are right in our neighborhoods, compromising our PCs and our elected officials -- in our local neighborhoods, destroying trust in commerce, discouraging people from using PCs and the Internet. Silently, making 100M off our time and budgets. It is a good opportunity to inform people with information that they can use to disqualify, embarrass, humiliate and defame any official who has been silent on spyware. If they are -- they simply don't surf the 'Net. Every informed citizen knows about spyware and hates it and wants to do something right now. Right now means today. This malware must be stopped, and every one of their customers (like Vonage) must be put completely out of business, and every elected official who supports spyware must be removed from office. Now. This is the stuff that recalls and impeachments are empowered by. Let's get to work -- copy and paste this link -- send to virtually everybody you know. Thanks Digg. Maybe Direct Revenue will be the first company that we drive out of the country (obviously) as a result of Digg exposure. After they leave the country -- we will then be forced to sanction the country they set-up in. But their clients will also be punished by consumer groups and consumers. Their clients -- like Vonage -- are the real criminals. They empower -- or hire -- the hackers to worm into our PCs and steal our souls. Let's show them how we take care of rogue comanies - -America!
nekoJul 7, 2006
If we don't watch the ads, it's like we're stealing the Internet..
mark1372Jul 7, 2006
Does that mean -- by their own logic -- that if someone clicks on a Vonage ad they "should have known" is tied to spyware and signs up for Vonage service as a result, it's a stupid thing? Because I'd agree.Calling your customers stupid (you too, Microsoft) for not knowing about the nefarious things their own companies are doing to them seems to be the new hotness.
cthulhu0Jul 7, 2006
wmp specific exploits:<a class="user" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/13/drm_trojan/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/13/drm_trojan/</a>buffer overflows:buffer overflows can be used on almost any system as far as i know. once you're out of the sand box, you have free reign of the playground.There is a whole range of attacks using this method. hell, there are whole books written on the subject<a class="user" href="http://safari.samspublishing.com/1932266674">http://safari.samspublishing.com/1932266674</a>
Closed AccountJul 7, 2006
Seumas is actually right.What year do you f**king think this is? How long have viruses and spyware been known? If you don't know enough about them to go blindly installing s**t, then yes, you deserve every bit of hassle you get. I'm sorry, but maybe I'd sympathize if it were 6 years ago, but people are f**king stupid and unwilling to learn. Natural selection. Get off the internet or you're gonna get compromised.
jsp317Jul 8, 2006
I'm so glad when you first bought a pc you knew all there is to know. calling people stupid for not knowing better is argent of you. i guess i should bow down to you for you know it all. when i remove all the spy ware and viruses off a customers computer. i load spy boot ad aware fire fox plus more. i teach them how to update plus use them. educate them. you cant just load them and expect them to use it.
jacks0nJul 8, 2006
"If I ever meet anyone from your company, I will kill you," "I will f------ kill you and your families."Web rage perhaps?Oh well, those 'sons of bitches' may deserve to be pimp-smacked, but they were the reason I switched to linux. And I thank them for that.
chilibowlJul 8, 2006
" I want to send it to my friend who's family photos (of his new born baby) were destroyed when he tried to remove the spyware from his PC." ah how can you send them if they were destroyed?if you leave your front door open is it still breaking in when someone enters your house?
blindsummitJul 9, 2006
I've had spyware that AVG didn't even recognise after a full update. I scanned with Ad Aware, Spybot and registry cleaner. Nothing picked it up. It respawned the registry settings and respawned an exe file in c:windows folder. As for the comment on killing them and not killing them because they are just doing their job? That's just stupid - if being a rapist is a job - does that make it ok. The bottom line is - nobody wants their advert spouting, invasion of privacy, system slowing piece of crap software on their computer. Why don't then just f**king stick it. I know there is software to remove it or to protect your system - but why should we even need to have this in the first place.
charlene89Nov 30, 2007
Fighting spyware as impossible as fighting email spam. <a class="user" href="http://spysweeper-download.blogspot.com">http://spysweeper-download.blogspot.com</a> illustrates a better way of guarding sensitive data - use antispyware and never rely on legislation )) another cool application is Xoftspy from <a class="user" href="http://xoftspyantispyware.blogspot.com">http://xoftspyantispyware.blogspot.com</a> which features very user-friendly GUI.