torrentfreak.com — "Torrent101, Torrentq and Bitroll are three malware supported BitTorrent clients which are heavily advertised on BitTorrent sites. They try to lure naive users into downloading these clients [...]. We decided to turn the tables around and advertised with malware warnings on their websites."
Apr 22, 2007 View in Crawl 4
theexguyApr 22, 2007
Hehe, funny, but ingenious way to fight malware. Too bad it's going to cost them an arm to do it. It's great to see people put their foot down and do something about this scourge of the internet.
rubikfreakApr 23, 2007
They do already. For example:<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=beautiful+free+screensaver">http://www.google.com/search?q=beautiful+free+screensaver</a>
huckmankApr 23, 2007
Umm, they do. And the fact that they do has started more than one Digg campaign against them.For instance, one web site waged a campaign because his s**tty piece of s**t page was compromised by hackers and installed malware. He commenced a campaign and thousands of clueless digg users helped him.
zxofApr 23, 2007
I use Adblock, not even seeing any ads...
memorex386Apr 23, 2007
who the f**k... was the person that made this site COLORBLIND?!?!
anonymous3Apr 23, 2007
Of course, nothing is stopping dodgy people from doing the same and ripping on a legitimate product on some person's website, getting exposure in the process, if that person was using ads to support their site.We might be able to discern any bad will around a product by googling around, but what would joe 6-pack do in the above scenario?
ifonlyApr 23, 2007
fkr3, no the main reason for the hatred is due to the false advertising of their programs - they claim they use "unique technology which increases bittorrent speed" etc, the whole thing is unethical.
Closed AccountApr 23, 2007
Eh? The only people who will download such clients, as stated in the article are "naive users" - who not only won't know how to setup VMWare or such, will probably have no idea such a thing exists..